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From: mans@mansr•com (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: ARM64: Disabling warnings about deprecated armv8 instructions
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:38:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xwpdcfqq0.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu98i4=COqr_Eikwja28U5MAL83rxe-_QBXWFhJ7v1E6yA@mail.gmail.com> (Ard Biesheuvel's message of "Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:50:23 +0000")

Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro•org> writes:

> On 30 January 2017 at 14:13, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@armlinux•org.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 01:01:53PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>> Emulating unaligned access in the ARM kernel was a mistake: it even
>>> emulates unaligned accesses for instructions like ldm and ldrd, which
>>> require word alignment at the hardware level even in the latest v8
>>> version of the architecture. In contrast, the v8 deprecation warnings
>>> are about enforcing compliance.
>>
>> Ard, you're totally wrong on the unaligned access thing.  Unaligned
>> accesses are a fundamental requirement of the kernel's networking
>> stack.  If you don't have support for unaligned accesses, then you
>> don't have network support - it's as simple as that.
>>
>> So, in order for ARMv5 and earlier to have network support, there
>> was no option to add support for emulating those accesses.
>>
>
> I wasn't aware of that.

Not even David Miller is "aware" of that.  Then again, we're living in a
world of "alternative facts" now.

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-30 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22  8:07 ARM64: Disabling warnings about deprecated armv8 instructions Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  8:52 ` Alexander Stein
2017-01-22  8:58   ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  9:05     ` Jisheng Zhang
2017-01-22  9:38       ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  9:43         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-22  9:52           ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  9:56             ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22 10:54             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-22 11:05               ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22 11:22                 ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  9:09     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-22  9:33       ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22  9:36         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-22  9:49           ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22 11:46       ` Alexander Stein
2017-01-22 12:21         ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22 13:01           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-22 14:02             ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-22 15:05               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-30 14:13             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-30 14:50               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-30 16:38                 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2017-01-30 16:58                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-30 17:09                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-30 17:39                     ` Eric Anholt
2017-01-30 17:41                     ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-30 18:17                       ` Måns Rullgård
2017-01-30 18:34                         ` Michael Zoran
2017-01-30 18:49                           ` Will Deacon
2017-01-30 19:53                             ` Michael Zoran

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