On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:31 PM Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 06:58:30PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > If we want to check, I'd expect we do the checks inside > readX()/writeX(), for example, readl() could be implemented as: > > #define readl(c) \ > ({ \ > u32 __v; \ > \ > /* alignment checking */ \ > BUG_ON(c & (sizeof(__v) - 1)); \ > __v = readl_relaxed(c); \ > __iormb(__v); \ > __v; \ > }) > > It's a runtime check, so if anyone hates it I can understand ;-) Right, I really don't think that adds any value, this just replaces one oops message with a more different oops message, while adding some overhead. Arnd