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Kernel v5.14 has various changes to optimize unaligned memory accesses, e.g. commit0652035a57("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers"). Those changes triggered an unalignment-exception and thus crashed the bootloader on parisc because the unaligned "output_len" variable now suddenly was read word-wise while it was read byte-wise in the past. Fix this issue by declaring the external output_len variable as char which then forces the compiler to generate byte-accesses. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102162 Fixes:8c031ba63f("parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations") Fixes:0652035a57("asm-generic: unaligned: remove byteshift helpers") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.14+
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.