ARM: 7150/1: Allow kernel unaligned accesses on ARMv6+ processors
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:05:53 +0000 (18:05 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:25:04 +0000 (18:25 +0000)
Recent gcc versions generate unaligned accesses by default on ARMv6 and
later processors. This patch ensures that the SCTLR.A bit is always
cleared on such processors to avoid kernel traping before
alignment_init() is called.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/head.S

index 566c54c2a1fef28bffea090e89bcec998b73ede6..08c82fd844a8683533216048b54ff2f210729fb6 100644 (file)
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ __secondary_data:
  *  r13 = *virtual* address to jump to upon completion
  */
 __enable_mmu:
-#ifdef CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP) && __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
        orr     r0, r0, #CR_A
 #else
        bic     r0, r0, #CR_A