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powerpc: Only pad struct pt_regs when needed

Message ID d536bbc46094f66b24d3017343be25164f232933.1620307840.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu (mailing list archive)
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Series powerpc: Only pad struct pt_regs when needed | expand

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Commit Message

Christophe Leroy May 6, 2021, 1:30 p.m. UTC
If neither KUAP nor PPC64 is selected, there is nothing in the second
union of struct pt_regs, so the alignment padding is waste of memory.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Michael Ellerman June 6, 2021, 12:08 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 6 May 2021 13:30:51 +0000 (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> If neither KUAP nor PPC64 is selected, there is nothing in the second
> union of struct pt_regs, so the alignment padding is waste of memory.

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc: Only pad struct pt_regs when needed
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b09049c516af90d4b6643b5d0d2549cd01539086

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Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
index 9c9ab2746168..4fd3a3bd5272 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@  struct pt_regs
 			unsigned long result;
 		};
 	};
-
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_KUAP)
 	union {
 		struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@  struct pt_regs
 		};
 		unsigned long __pad[4];	/* Maintain 16 byte interrupt stack alignment */
 	};
+#endif
 };
 #endif