Re: [PATCH v6 07/36] nds32: Exception handling

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 06:10:18 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Vincent Chen <deanbo422@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2018-01-18 18:14 GMT+08:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:

> Ok. I still wonder about the kernel part of this though: is it a good idea
> for user space to configure whether the kernel does unaligned
> accesses? I would think that the kernel should just be fixed in such
> a case.

To clarify: I'm asking only about unaligned accesses from kernel code itself,
which is generally considered a bug when
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is disabled.

Arnd