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On 10/6/19 4:35 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Anyway, let me think about this, but just for testing, does the
> attached patch make any difference? It's not the right thing in
> general (and most definitely not on x86), but for testing whether this
> is about unaligned accesses it might work.
> 

All my alpha, sparc64, and xtensa tests pass with the attached patch
applied on top of v5.4-rc2. I didn't test any others.

I'll (try to) send you some disassembly next.

Guenter