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DWord alignment on ARMv7

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Hello,

I'm using btrfs on am ARMv7 and it turns out, that the kernel has to
fixup a lot of kernel originated alignment issues.

See /proc/cpu/alignment (~4h of uptime):
> System: 22304815 (btrfs_get_token_64+0x13c/0x148 [btrfs])

For example, when compiling the kernel on a btrfs volume the counter
increases by 100...1000 per second.

The function shown "btrfs_get_token_64()" is defined here:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/btrfs/struct-funcs.c#L53
...it already uses get_unaligned_leXX accessors.

Quoting a comment in arch/arm/mm/alignment.c:

         * ARMv6 and later CPUs can perform unaligned accesses for
         * most single load and store instructions up to word size.
         * LDM, STM, LDRD and STRD still need to be handled.

But on a 32bit ARMv7 64bits are not word-sized.

Is the exception and fixup overhead neglectable? Do we have to introduce
something like HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_64BIT_ACCESS?

regards,
Marc

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DWord alignment on ARMv7 Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> - 2016-03-03 23:20 +0100

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