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The current packed struct implementation of unaligned access adds the
packed attribute only to the field within the unaligned struct rather than
to the struct as a whole.  This is not sufficient to enforce proper
behaviour on architectures with a default struct alignment of more than
one byte.

For example, the current implementation of __get_unaligned_cpu16 when
compiled for arm with gcc -O1 -mstructure-size-boundary=32 assumes the
struct is on a 4 byte boundary so performs the load of the 16bit packed
field as if it were on a 4 byte boundary:

__get_unaligned_cpu16:
        ldrh    r0, [r0, #0]
        bx      lr

Moving the packed attribute to the struct rather than the field causes the
proper unaligned access code to be generated:

__get_unaligned_cpu16:
	ldrb	r3, [r0, #0]	@ zero_extendqisi2
	ldrb	r0, [r0, #1]	@ zero_extendqisi2
	orr	r0, r3, r0, asl #8
	bx	lr

Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Will Newton authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 23, 2010
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#include <linux/kernel.h>

struct __una_u16 { u16 x __attribute__((packed)); };
struct __una_u32 { u32 x __attribute__((packed)); };
struct __una_u64 { u64 x __attribute__((packed)); };
struct __una_u16 { u16 x; } __attribute__((packed));
struct __una_u32 { u32 x; } __attribute__((packed));
struct __una_u64 { u64 x; } __attribute__((packed));

static inline u16 __get_unaligned_cpu16(const void *p)
{
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