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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2012-12-04 12:56:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2012-12-07 12:48:57 +0100 |
| commit | e91b36efe51b5cbbfe5eb61a653cde5985ae8285 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b003a99db9afedbdeca8c795ca6e06716a5b3d5 /arch/arm | |
| parent | ARM: 7591/1: nommu: Enable the strict alignment (CR_A) bit only if ARCH < v6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e91b36efe51b5cbbfe5eb61a653cde5985ae8285.tar.xz linux-e91b36efe51b5cbbfe5eb61a653cde5985ae8285.zip | |
ARM: 7592/1: nommu: prevent generation of kernel unaligned memory accesses
Recent ARMv7 toolchains assume that unaligned memory accesses will not
fault and will instead be handled by the processor.
For the nommu case (without an MPU), memory will be treated as
strongly-ordered and therefore unaligned accesses may fault regardless
of the SCTLR.A setting.
This patch passes -mno-unaligned-access to GCC when compiling for nommu
targets, preventing the generation of unaligned memory access in the
kernel.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile index f023e3acdfbd..cbe364210c7d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := versatile_defconfig # defines filename extension depending memory management type. ifeq ($(CONFIG_MMU),) MMUEXT := -nommu +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-unaligned-access) endif ifeq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER),y) |