Sparc64 expect 64 bit types to be aligned to 8. This patch ensure that memory allocated by 'rds_page_remainder_alloc' will be aligned to 8. This patch fix issue found in 'rds_ib_cong_recv' when accessing unaligned memory using uint64_t pointer.
Signed-off-by: Shamir Rabinovitch <shamir.rabinovi...@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.w...@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ajaykumar Hotchandani <ajaykumar.hotchand...@oracle.com> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilim...@oracle.com> Tested-by: Anand Bibhuti <anand.bibh...@oracle.com> --- net/rds/page.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/rds/page.c b/net/rds/page.c index 616f21f..4813e1f 100644 --- a/net/rds/page.c +++ b/net/rds/page.c @@ -135,8 +135,9 @@ int rds_page_remainder_alloc(struct scatterlist *scat, unsigned long bytes, if (rem->r_offset != 0) rds_stats_inc(s_page_remainder_hit); - rem->r_offset += bytes; - if (rem->r_offset == PAGE_SIZE) { + /* fix 'Kernel unaligned access' on sparc64 */ + rem->r_offset += ALIGN(bytes, 8); + if (rem->r_offset >= PAGE_SIZE) { __free_page(rem->r_page); rem->r_page = NULL; } -- 1.7.1