linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] system certificates: specify byte alignment

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Message-ID: <aNF7bMbCLctgZQXq@willie-the-truck>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:38:04 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] system certificates: specify byte alignment

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> The .align macro is architecture dependent. On arm64 it behaves as
> .p2align. The various alignments in this file are all bytes.
> 
> So use the .balign macro to avoid unnecessary padding due to
> over-alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@...gle.com>
> ---
>  certs/system_certificates.S | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Does certs/revocation_certificates.S need fixing as well?

Will