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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190213125651.GP32494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.10.161.59] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/13/19 4:56 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Personally I think u64 and company should already force natural > alignment; but alas. But there is an ISA/ABI angle here too. e.g. On 32-bit ARC, LDD (load double) is allowed to take a 32-bit aligned address to load a register pair. Thus all u64 need not be 64-bit aligned (unless attribute aligned 8 etc) hence the relaxation in ABI (alignment of long long is 4). You could certainly argue that we end up undoing some of it anyways by defining things like ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to 8, but still... > I though that was part of the reason we have __u64 > and co., so that ABI is invariant to kernel alignment changes. Apparently not. >>> I suspect the slab allocator should be returning 8 byte aligned addresses >>> on all systems.... >> >> why ? As I understand it is still not fool proof against the expected alignment of >> inner members. There ought to be a better way to enforce all this. > > I agree that for ARC ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN should be at least 8. This issue aside, are there other reasons ? Because making it 8 on ARC is just pending the eventuality for later.