[PATCH 38/39] powerpc: Don't set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on little endian builds

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Mon Sep 23 12:05:12 EST 2013


POWER7 takes alignment exceptions on some unaligned addresses, so
disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. This fixes an early boot
issue in the printk code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index d232c84..2193676 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ config PPC
 	select VIRT_TO_BUS if !PPC64
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
-	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
+	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS if !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
-- 
1.8.1.2



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