On 11/15/23 08:58, Patrick Venture wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 2:35 AM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org <mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org>> wrote:On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 20:55, Patrick Venture <vent...@google.com <mailto:vent...@google.com>> wrote: > Avoids unaligned pointer issues. > It would be nice to be more specific in the commit message here, by describing what kind of guest behaviour or machine config runs into this problem, and whether this happens in a situation users are likely to run into. If the latter, we should consider tagging the commit with "Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org <mailto:qemu-sta...@nongnu.org>" to have it backported to the stable release branches.Thanks! I'll update the commit message with v2. We were seeing this in our infrastructure with unaligned accesses using the pointer dereference as there are no guarantees on alignment of the incoming values.
Which host cpu, for reference? There aren't many that generate unaligned traps these days... r~
