From d944d549aa86e08cba080396513234cf048fee1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:13:29 +0000 Subject: ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during boot. This can prevent systems booting properly. There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be booted. So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/arm/mm') diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c index b270d6228fe..62820eda84d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as * published by the Free Software Foundation. */ +#include #include #include #include @@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ static unsigned long ai_dword; static unsigned long ai_multi; static int ai_usermode; +core_param(alignment, ai_usermode, int, 0600); + #define UM_WARN (1 << 0) #define UM_FIXUP (1 << 1) #define UM_SIGNAL (1 << 2) -- cgit v1.2.3