[PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Tue Apr 20 04:10:29 BST 2021


On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:48:17AM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > 32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
> > and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) had their struct
> > page inadvertently expanded in 2019.
> 
> FWIW, ARC doesn't require 8 byte alignment for 8 byte integers. This is 
> only needed for 8-byte atomics due to the requirements of LLOCKD/SCOND 
> instructions.

Ah, like x86?  OK, great, I'll drop your arch from the list of
affected.  Thanks!



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