Re: State of RFC PATCH Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2022-09-13 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 12/09/2022 à 17:22, Christophe Leroy a écrit : Le 12/09/2022 à 15:46, Lukas Bulwahn a écrit : Hi Joe, hi Ben, While reviewing some kernel config, I came across CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and tried to understand its purpose. Then, I discovered this RFC patch from 2014 that seems never

Re: State of RFC PATCH Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2022-09-12 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 12/09/2022 à 15:46, Lukas Bulwahn a écrit : > Hi Joe, hi Ben, > > While reviewing some kernel config, I came across > CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and tried to understand its purpose. > > Then, I discovered this RFC patch from 2014 that seems never to have > been integrated: > >

State of RFC PATCH Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2022-09-12 Thread Lukas Bulwahn
Hi Joe, hi Ben, While reviewing some kernel config, I came across CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and tried to understand its purpose. Then, I discovered this RFC patch from 2014 that seems never to have been integrated: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1393964591.20435.58.camel@joe-AO722/ [RFC] Remove

Re: [RFC PATCH] Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2014-03-25 Thread Joe Perches
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 07:37 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:23 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: It seems to duplicate CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS so use that instead. This changes the !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN powerpc arch to use unaligned accesses in

Re: [RFC PATCH] Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2014-03-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:23 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: It seems to duplicate CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS so use that instead. This changes the !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN powerpc arch to use unaligned accesses in fs/dcache.c and fs/namei.c as CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is

[RFC PATCH] Remove CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

2014-03-04 Thread Joe Perches
It seems to duplicate CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS so use that instead. This changes the !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN powerpc arch to use unaligned accesses in fs/dcache.c and fs/namei.c as CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is enabled for that arch. Remove the now unused DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS