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On 64-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS (e.g. ppc64, ppc64le, parisc, s390x,...) the __KSYM_REF() macro stores 64-bit pointers into the __ksymtab* sections. Make sure that those sections will be correctly aligned at module link time, otherwise unaligned memory accesses may happen at runtime. As per unaligned-memory-access [0] "unaligned memory accesses [...] will not work correctly on certain platforms and will cause performance problems on others", so fix this. The __kcrctab* sections store 32-bit entities, so use ALIGN(4) for those. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [mcgrof: added unaligned-memory-access justification] Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/core-api/unaligned-memory-access.rst # [0] Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.