On 5/31/19 1:21 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> I'm not sure how to interpret "natural alignment" for the case of double >> load/stores on 32-bit systems where the hardware and ABI allow for 4 byte >> alignment (ARCv2 LDD/STD, ARM LDRD/STRD ....) > Natural alignment: !((uintptr_t)ptr % sizeof(*ptr)) > > For any u64 type, that would give 8 byte alignment. the problem > otherwise being that your data spans two lines/pages etc.. Sure, but as Paul said, if the software doesn't expect them to be atomic by default, they could span 2 hardware lines to keep the implementation simpler/sane. _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc
