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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:58:10 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 06:37:45AM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> Because there is a codebase that relies on existing types, mostly in
> filesystem code. And those fs fixes would require 5 or 6 patches.

Does that mean that are there filesystems that are passing pointers to
the find_bit functions which are _not_ aligned to an "unsigned long" ?

If there are, we should _not_ convert 32-bit ARM to use word loads or
use the generic code; unaligned loads are expensive on older ARM CPUs,
at least not the code for older ARM CPUs.

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