linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv,entry: fix misaligned base for excp_vect

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     yuzihao@....ac.cn
CC:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
        yuzihao@....ac.cn, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH] riscv,entry: fix misaligned base for excp_vect_table

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 01:17:25 PDT (-0700), yuzihao@....ac.cn wrote:
> * In RV64, the size of each entry in excp_vect_table is 8 bytes. If the
>   base of the table is not 8-byte aligned, loading an entry in the table
>   will raise a misaligned exception. Although such exception will be
>   handled by opensbi/bbl, this still causes performance degradation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zihao Yu <yuzihao@....ac.cn>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> index 744f3209c..76274a4a1 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ ENDPROC(__switch_to)
>  #endif
>
>  	.section ".rodata"
> +	.align LGREG
>  	/* Exception vector table */
>  ENTRY(excp_vect_table)
>  	RISCV_PTR do_trap_insn_misaligned

Thanks, this is on fixes.