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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 07:11:28 -0700
From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86/split_lock: Align x86_capability to unsigned
 long to avoid split locked access
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 02:18:59PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 01:38:44PM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > include/linux/efi.h because set_bit() sets bits in efi.flags:
> > -       unsigned long flags;
> > +       unsigned long flags __aligned(unsigned long);
> >  } efi;
> 
> Help me out here; how is the above change not a complete no-op?

You are right. Thomas pointed out 'flags' is already naturally aligned to
unsigned long because its type is unsigned long. So the __aligned()
is no-op.

Thanks.

-Fenghua