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authorFinn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>2026-01-13 16:22:28 +1100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-01-26 19:07:14 -0800
commite428b013d9dff30f7a65509e33047ba975cce8ba (patch)
tree28e5417b98cda71895555e07732a39f330bdc318 /include
parent3bb83c910971c47989aa439849265600fa67b42a (diff)
atomic: specify alignment for atomic_t and atomic64_t
Some recent commits incorrectly assumed 4-byte alignment of locks. That assumption fails on Linux/m68k (and, interestingly, would have failed on Linux/cris also). The jump label implementation makes a similar alignment assumption. The expectation that atomic_t and atomic64_t variables will be naturally aligned seems reasonable, as indeed they are on 64-bit architectures. But atomic64_t isn't naturally aligned on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh. Neither atomic_t nor atomic64_t are naturally aligned on m68k. This patch brings a little uniformity by specifying natural alignment for atomic types. One benefit is that atomic64_t variables do not get split across a page boundary. The cost is that some structs grow which leads to cache misses and wasted memory. See also, commit bbf2a330d92c ("x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too"). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a76bc24a4e7c1d8112d7d5fa8d14e4b694a0e90c.1768281748.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFr9PX=MYUDGJS2kAvPMkkfvH+0-SwQB_kxE4ea0J_wZ_pk=7w@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdW7Ab13DdGs2acMQcix5ObJK0O2dG_Fxzr8_g58Rc1_0g@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Daniel Borkman <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/atomic64.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/types.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic64.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic64.h
index 100d24b02e52..f22ccfc0df98 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/atomic64.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic64.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
typedef struct {
- s64 counter;
+ s64 __aligned(sizeof(s64)) counter;
} atomic64_t;
#define ATOMIC64_INIT(i) { (i) }
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 0cbb684eec5c..f69be881369f 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ typedef phys_addr_t resource_size_t;
typedef unsigned long irq_hw_number_t;
typedef struct {
- int counter;
+ int __aligned(sizeof(int)) counter;
} atomic_t;
#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) { (i) }