Re: unaligned accesses in SLAB etc.

[David Miller]

From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:59:07 -0400 (EDT)

> I don't want to define the array size of the fpregs save area
> explicitly and thereby placing an artificial limit there.

Nevermind, it seems we have a hard limit of 7 FPU save areas anyways.

Meelis, please try this patch:

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h
index f85dc85..cc6275c 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ struct thread_info {
 	struct pt_regs		*kern_una_regs;
 	unsigned int		kern_una_insn;
 
-	unsigned long		fpregs[0] __attribute__ ((aligned(64)));
+	unsigned long		fpregs[(7 * 256) / sizeof(unsigned long)]
+		__attribute__ ((aligned(64)));
 };
 
 #endif /* !(__ASSEMBLY__) */

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