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printk: Fix alignment of buf causing crash on ARM EABI
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Commit 7ff9554, printk: convert
byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer, causes systems using
EABI to crash very early in the boot cycle. The first entry in struct
log is a u64, which for EABI must be 8 byte aligned.

Make use of __alignof__() so the compiler to decide the alignment, but
allow it to be overridden using CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS,
for systems which can perform unaligned access and want to save
a few bytes of space.

Tested on Orion5x and Kirkwood.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Andrew Lunn authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jun 12, 2012
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions kernel/printk.c
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Expand Up @@ -227,10 +227,10 @@ static u32 clear_idx;
#define LOG_LINE_MAX 1024

/* record buffer */
#if !defined(CONFIG_64BIT) || defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
#define LOG_ALIGN 4
#else
#define LOG_ALIGN 8
#define LOG_ALIGN __alignof__(struct log)
#endif
#define __LOG_BUF_LEN (1 << CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT)
static char __log_buf[__LOG_BUF_LEN] __aligned(LOG_ALIGN);
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