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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2008-07-25 01:45:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-25 10:53:27 -0700 |
| commit | 58340a07c194e0aed7bc58b61ff24330bb2a409f (patch) | |
| tree | 907a53c71b3092e3a3a95c6641d4839e20214efd /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | e0ce0da9fefcc723dc006c35a7f91a32750abd40 (diff) | |
| download | linux-58340a07c194e0aed7bc58b61ff24330bb2a409f.tar.gz | |
introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to know at
compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned accesses efficiently.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol
HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures. Also add
some documentation about alignment and networking, and especially one intended
use of this symbol.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [x86 architecture part]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index a487671c282f..de6b49cd6be8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ config PPC select HAVE_FTRACE select HAVE_IDE select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT + select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS select HAVE_KPROBES select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB select HAVE_KRETPROBES |