Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:40:31 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, will.newton@gmail.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-mm 3/7] unaligned: use generic implementation on
 packed-struct arches
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:39:11 -0800
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> No functional changes, convert arches that use the packed-struct
> implementation for native-endianness and C byteshifting for the
> other endianness.

arch/sh has gone and changed things in linux-next.

> diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h
> index c1641a0..abe2dd7 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h
> +++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h
> @@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H
>  #define _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H
>  
> -/* SH can't handle unaligned accesses. */
> -#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
> -# include <linux/unaligned/le_struct.h>
> -# include <linux/unaligned/be_byteshift.h>
> -# include <linux/unaligned/generic.h>
> -# define get_unaligned	__get_unaligned_le
> -# define put_unaligned	__put_unaligned_le
> -#else
> -# include <linux/unaligned/be_struct.h>
> -# include <linux/unaligned/le_byteshift.h>
> -# include <linux/unaligned/generic.h>
> -# define get_unaligned	__get_unaligned_be
> -# define put_unaligned	__put_unaligned_be
> -#endif
> +#include <asm-generic/unaligned.h>
>  
>  #endif /* _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H */

But this happened instead:

--- linux-2.6.28-rc6/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h	2008-10-15 11:43:12.000000000 -0700
+++ 25/arch/sh/include/asm/unaligned.h	2008-11-26 12:32:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H
 #define _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H
 
-/* SH can't handle unaligned accesses. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SH4A
+/* SH-4A can handle unaligned loads in a relatively neutered fashion. */
+#include <asm/unaligned-sh4a.h>
+#else
+/* Otherwise, SH can't handle unaligned accesses. */
 #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__
 # include <linux/unaligned/le_struct.h>
 # include <linux/unaligned/be_byteshift.h>
@@ -15,5 +19,6 @@
 # define get_unaligned	__get_unaligned_be
 # define put_unaligned	__put_unaligned_be
 #endif
+#endif
 
 #endif /* _ASM_SH_UNALIGNED_H */

It's a bit sad to create a new variant of the sh unaligned accessors
while Harvey is madly tugging everything in the opposite direction.

I am tempted to revise the patch by just blowing away the above
changes, so the new unaligned-sh4a.h just doesn't get used by anything.
However...

commit accccfb3d8c2cb65baf7cdfc74a2da4cdeee65ab
Author: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 26 00:29:58 2008 +0900

    sh: Provide optimized unaligned loads on SH-4A.
    
    This adds support for unaligned loads on SH-4A, using the SH-4A's
    neutered movua.l instruction. As movua.l is r0-inspired, stores are
    still handled through the packed struct.
    
    Based on asm-generic/unaligned.h by Harvey Harrison.
    
    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>


so I'll just drop the sh hunk from
unaligned-use-generic-implementation-on-packed-struct-arches.patch, I
think.

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