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ARM: 7592/1: nommu: prevent generation of kernel unaligned memory accesses 

Recent ARMv7 toolchains assume that unaligned memory accesses will not
fault and will instead be handled by the processor.

For the nommu case (without an MPU), memory will be treated as
strongly-ordered and therefore unaligned accesses may fault regardless
of the SCTLR.A setting.

This patch passes -mno-unaligned-access to GCC when compiling for nommu
targets, preventing the generation of unaligned memory access in the
kernel.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Will Deacon 2012-12-04 12:56:44 +01:00 committed by Russell King
parent 76e0920403
commit e91b36efe5
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@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := versatile_defconfig
# defines filename extension depending memory management type.
ifeq ($(CONFIG_MMU),)
MMUEXT := -nommu
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-unaligned-access)
endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER),y)