[PATCH] powerpc: Only pad struct pt_regs when needed
    Christophe Leroy 
    christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
       
    Thu May  6 23:30:51 AEST 2021
    
    
  
If neither KUAP nor PPC64 is selected, there is nothing in the second
union of struct pt_regs, so the alignment padding is waste of memory.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 9c9ab2746168..4fd3a3bd5272 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct pt_regs
 			unsigned long result;
 		};
 	};
-
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP)
 	union {
 		struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ struct pt_regs
 		};
 		unsigned long __pad[4];	/* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */
 	};
+#endif
 };
 #endif
 
-- 
2.25.0
    
    
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