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ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS

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Commit c19fa94a8f ("Add HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS") added the config for
architectures that required 64bit aligned access for all 64bit words. As
the ftrace ring buffer stores data on 4 byte alignment, this config option
was used to force it to store data on 8 byte alignment to make sure the data
being stored and written directly into the ring buffer was 8 byte aligned as
it would cause issues trying to write an 8 byte word on a 4 not 8 byte
aligned memory location.

But with the removal of the metag architecture, which was the only
architecture to use this, there is no architecture supported by Linux that
requires 8 byte aligne access for all 8 byte words (4 byte alignment is good
enough). Removing this config can simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2019-05-28 09:36:19 -04:00
parent a124692b69
commit 86b3de60a0
2 changed files with 4 additions and 29 deletions
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arch/Kconfig
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@ -128,22 +128,6 @@ config UPROBES
managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
application. )
config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
help
Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
architectures without unaligned access.
This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
bool
help

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kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
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@ -128,16 +128,7 @@ int ring_buffer_print_entry_header(struct trace_seq *s)
#define RB_ALIGNMENT 4U
#define RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA (RB_ALIGNMENT * RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA_TYPE_LEN_MAX)
#define RB_EVNT_MIN_SIZE 8U /* two 32bit words */
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
# define RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT 0
# define RB_ARCH_ALIGNMENT RB_ALIGNMENT
#else
# define RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT 1
# define RB_ARCH_ALIGNMENT 8U
#endif
#define RB_ALIGN_DATA __aligned(RB_ARCH_ALIGNMENT)
#define RB_ALIGN_DATA __aligned(RB_ALIGNMENT)
/* define RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA for 'case RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA:' */
#define RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA 0 ... RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA_TYPE_LEN_MAX
@ -2373,7 +2364,7 @@ rb_update_event(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
event->time_delta = delta;
length -= RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE;
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA || RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT) {
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA) {
event->type_len = 0;
event->array[0] = length;
} else
@ -2388,11 +2379,11 @@ static unsigned rb_calculate_event_length(unsigned length)
if (!length)
length++;
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA || RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT)
if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA)
length += sizeof(event.array[0]);
length += RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE;
length = ALIGN(length, RB_ARCH_ALIGNMENT);
length = ALIGN(length, RB_ALIGNMENT);
/*
* In case the time delta is larger than the 27 bits for it