Re: [PATCH v2 02/16] powerpc: override __ALIGN() and __ALIGN_STR() macros

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 11:22:09AM +0530, Sathvika Vasireddy wrote:
> Powerpc instructions must be word-aligned. Currently,
> there is an alignment of 16 bytes (by default), and it is
> much more than what is required for powerpc (4 bytes).
> 
> The default expansion of __ALIGN() macro is:
> #define __ALIGN       .align 4,0x90
> 
> Since Powerpc Linux does not require a 16 byte alignment,
> override __ALIGN() and __ALIGN_STR() macros to use required
> 4 byte alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/linkage.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/linkage.h
> index b71b9582e754..8df88fe61438 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/linkage.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/linkage.h
> @@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_LINKAGE_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_LINKAGE_H
>  
> +#include <linux/stringify.h>
>  #include <asm/types.h>
>  
> +#define __ALIGN			.align 2
> +#define __ALIGN_STR		__stringify(__ALIGN)


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