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Instead of using the array-of-pointers trick to avoid having gcc mess up
the built-in module-version array stride, specify type alignment when
declaring entries to prevent gcc from increasing alignment.
This is essentially an alternative (one-line) fix to the problem
addressed by commit b4bc842802 ("module: deal with alignment issues in
built-in module versions").
gcc can increase the alignment of larger objects with static extent as
an optimisation, but this can be suppressed by using the aligned
attribute when declaring variables.
Note that we have been relying on this behaviour for kernel parameters
for 16 years and it indeed hasn't changed since the introduction of the
aligned attribute in gcc-3.1.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103175711.10731-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.