On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 03:03:45PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
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?
Sure, will pick this and patch 1/8 up now, thanks for the prod. greg k-h
