Re: [PATCH] fix ehci alignment error

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 13:39:18 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:31:26PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Greg KH writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:38:27PM +0200, Harro Haan wrote:
> > > >> The Kirkwood gave an unaligned memory access error on
> > > >> line 742 of drivers/usb/host/echi-hcd.c:
> > > >> "ehci->last_periodic_enable = ktime_get_real();"
> > > >
> > > > What is "The Kirkwood"? What size processor is this?
> > >
> > > It's an ARM926-like CPU from Marvell.
> >
> > 32 or 64bit?
>
> All ARMs are 32-bit, but some have instructions for loading or
> storing 2 x 32 bits at a time, but also require the corresponding
> memory address to be 64-bit aligned.

Ah, ok, that makes more sense here. I'll go queue it up.

greg k-h
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