Russell, On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:16:33PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:07:37PM +0000, Giancarlo Ferrari wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > Why we should align 3 ? For the fncpy I suppose. > > Slightly arbitary really - it gives a nice 8-byte alignment to the data. > .align 2 would also be sufficient. > > > I don't know now how to proceed now, as you (Mark and you) do completely > > the patch. > > Please can you test my patch and let us know if it solves your problem > (or even if it works! I haven't tested it beyond build-testing.) >
sure, unfortunately due to restriction, I hope to test it by the end of the week. I hope there will be no rush. Otherwise, please let me know. > > You see is my first kernel patch submission :) . > > Yay. Sorry for giving you a different patch - Mark is quite right that > there's a better solution to this problem, which is eliminating the > set_kernel_text_rw() call. The only reason I cooked up the patch was > doing that would be more in-depth (as you can see from the increased > size of the patch.) > I definitely agree with you. > -- > RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ > FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last! Thanks again, GF
