[PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Sep 6 10:45:58 PDT 2022
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 15:53:22 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The 32-bit ARM kernel implements fixups on behalf of user space when
> using LDM/STM or LDRD/STRD instructions on addresses that are not 32-bit
> aligned. This is not something that is supported by the architecture,
> but was done anyway to increase compatibility with user space software,
> which mostly targeted x86 at the time and did not care about aligned
> accesses.
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/3fc24ef32d3b
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