linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper

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Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 19:45:16 +0000
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper

On 5/14/21 12:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:52 AM Vineet Gupta
> <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com> wrote:
>> Wasn't the new zlib code slated for 5.14. I don't see it in your master yet
> You're right, I never actually committed it, since it was specific to
> ARC and -O3

Well, not really, the issue manifested in ARC O3 testing, but I showed 
the problem existed for arm64 gcc too.

> and I wasn't entirely happy with the amount of testing it
> got (with Heiko pointing out that the s390 stuff needed more fixes for
> the change).

With his addon patch everything seemed hunky dory.

> The patch below is required on top of your patch to make it compile
> for s390 as well.
> Tested with kernel image decompression, and also btrfs with file
> compression; both software and hardware compression.
> Everything seems to work.

> So in fact it's not even queued up for 5.14 due to this all, I just dropped it.

But Why. Can't we throw it in linux-next for 5.14. I promise to test it 
- and will likely hit any corner cases. Also for the time being we could 
force just that file/files to build for -O3 to stress test the aspects 
that were fragile.

>>>    and the biggy
>>> case didn't even use "get_unaligned()").
>> Indeed this series is sort of orthogonal to that bug, but IMO that bug
>> still exists in 5.13 for -O3 build, granted that is not enabled for !ARC.
> Right, the zlib bug is still there.
>
> But Arnd's series wouldn't even fix it: right now inffast has its own
> - ugly and slow - special 2-byte-only version of "get_unaligned()",
> called "get_unaligned16()".

I know that's why said they are orthogonal.


> And because it's ugly and slow, it's not actually used for
> CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS.
>
> Vineet - maybe the fix is to not take my patch to update to a newer
> zlib, but to just fix inffast to use the proper get_unaligned(). Then
> Arnd's series _would_ actually fix all this..

OK if you say so.

-Vineet