This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled riscv,entry: fix misaligned base for excp_vect_table to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: riscv-entry-fix-misaligned-base-for-excp_vect_table.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6b9f054943945b550381a4bf7eebbb807ef19c0a Author: Zihao Yu <yuzihao@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 17 16:17:25 2021 +0800 riscv,entry: fix misaligned base for excp_vect_table [ Upstream commit ac8d0b901f0033b783156ab2dc1a0e73ec42409b ] In RV64, the size of each entry in excp_vect_table is 8 bytes. If the base of the table is not 8-byte aligned, loading an entry in the table will raise a misaligned exception. Although such exception will be handled by opensbi/bbl, this still causes performance degradation. Signed-off-by: Zihao Yu <yuzihao@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S index 8ca479831142..9c87ae77ad5d 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S @@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to) ENDPROC(__switch_to) .section ".rodata" + .align LGREG /* Exception vector table */ ENTRY(excp_vect_table) RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_misaligned