Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] earlycon: simplify earlycon-table implementation

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Greg,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:23:13AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Instead of using the array-of-pointers trick to avoid having gcc mess up
> the earlycon array stride, specify type alignment when declaring entries
> to prevent gcc from increasing alignment.
> 
> This is essentially an alternative (one-line) fix to the problem
> addressed by commit dd709e72cb93 ("earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix
> __earlycon_table stride").
> 
> gcc can increase the alignment of larger objects with static extent as
> an optimisation, but this can be suppressed by using the aligned
> attribute when declaring variables.
> 
> Note that we have been relying on this behaviour for kernel parameters
> for 16 years and it indeed hasn't changed since the introduction of the
> aligned attribute in gcc-3.1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Could you pick this one up for 5.11?

Johan



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