Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure hashtable function

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Dec 15 2016 - 16:10:02 EST


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 07:50:36PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> There's no 32-bit platform
> that will trap on a 64-bit unaligned access because there's no such
> thing as a 64-bit access there. In short, we're fine.

ARMv7 LPAE is a 32bit architecture that has 64bit load/stores IIRC.

x86 has cmpxchg8b that can do 64bit things and very much wants the u64
aligned.

Also, IIRC we have a few platforms where u64 doesn't carry 8 byte
alignment, m68k or something like that, but yes, you likely don't care.

Just to make life interesting...