From 475e68cfdde39e6d95055999b0cb42fdb2bea0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:02:26 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Align thread->fpr to 16 bytes On newer CPUs we use VSX loads and stores to the thread->fpr array. For best performance we need to ensure 16 byte alignment. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h index 2b5a39c67df4..9fe1129efa02 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ struct thread_struct { #endif #endif /* FP and VSX 0-31 register set */ - double fpr[32][TS_FPRWIDTH]; + double fpr[32][TS_FPRWIDTH] __attribute__((aligned(16))); struct { unsigned int pad; -- 2.20.1