On Wed, 7 Jan 2026, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The more interesting bit then is what happens when you actually turn on > -malign-int for the kernel itself. There are many drivers that change > behavior, but mostly this is going to be a fix rather than a regression. Sorry, Arnd, but wasting memory is a regression not a bug fix. And if you do that on systems that have no memory to spare, you're probably going to cause -ENOMEM failures. If you want to fix issues with CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER or CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL, it's much better to simply align atomic types, as my patches have already demonstrated. Assumptions about atomics are prevalent. But I reject your pandering to developers who make bad assumptions about integers, or those who would prefer that all architectures were the same, as if all users were the same.
