On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:18:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 8:52 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This patch series introduces absolute_pointer() to fix the problem. > > absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol > > type and context, and thus prevents gcc from making assumptions about > > pointers passed to memory operations. > > Ok, I've applied this to my tree. > > I note that the physical BOOT_PCB addresses in the alpha setup.h file > might be useful for things like MILO in user space, but since I > couldn't even find MILO sources any more, I couldn't really check. > > I suspect alpha is basically on life support and presumably nobody > would ever compile a bootloader anyway, so it's unlikely to matter. > > If somebody does find any issues, we'll know better and we can ask > where the user space sources are that might use that alpha setup.h > file. I think everyone uses aboot now as the bootloader on Alpha. So as long as we can still compile aboot everyone should be happy. Cheers Michael.
