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Christophe Leroy committed 7ab0b7cb895
powerpc/32: Add warning on misaligned copy_page() or clear_page() copy_page() and clear_page() expect page aligned destination, and use dcbz instruction to clear entire cache lines based on the assumption that the destination is cache aligned. As shown during analysis of a bug in BTRFS filesystem, a misaligned copy_page() can create bugs that are difficult to locate (see Link). Add an explicit WARNING when copy_page() or clear_page() are called with misaligned destination. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6cea38f90480268d439ca44a645647e260fff09.1565941808.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr