[PATCH] powerpc: Merge align.c
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 15 16:35:09 EST 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:10 -0600, Becky Bruce wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I've just done some basic testing of lmw/stmw, lwz/stw, lhx/sth,
> lfs/stfs, and lfd/stfd misaligned across a doubleword boundary, and
> everything looks good so far. I'll check out the byte reversals and a
> few other forms tomorrow.
Excellent, thanks ! BTW. Make sure you test these one CPUs that actually
trap on misaligned accesses :) Best is probably to do the misaligned
access accross a page boundary, that's what most CPUs can do.
Ben.
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