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authorHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>2020-02-23 13:20:11 +0100
committerKoen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>2020-02-28 17:50:45 +0100
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kernel: copy kernel 4.19 code to 5.4
No changes were done to the patches while coping them. Currently they do not apply on top of kernel 5.4. Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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diff --git a/target/linux/generic/pending-5.4/333-arc-enable-unaligned-access-in-kernel-mode.patch b/target/linux/generic/pending-5.4/333-arc-enable-unaligned-access-in-kernel-mode.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
+Subject: arc: enable unaligned access in kernel mode
+
+This enables misaligned access handling even in kernel mode.
+Some wireless drivers (ath9k-htc and mt7601u) use misaligned accesses
+here and there and to cope with that without fixing stuff in the drivers
+we're just gracefully handling it on ARC.
+
+Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
+---
+ arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c
++++ b/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c
+@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int misaligned_fixup(unsigned long addre
+ char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+
+ /* handle user mode only and only if enabled by sysadmin */
+- if (!user_mode(regs) || !unaligned_enabled)
++ if (!unaligned_enabled)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (no_unaligned_warning) {