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printk: make dynamic kernel ring buffer alignment explicit
We have to consider alignment for the ring buffer both for the default static size, and then also for when an dynamic allocation is made when the log_buf_len=n kernel parameter is passed to set the size specifically to a size larger than the default size set by the architecture through CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT. The default static kernel ring buffer can be aligned properly if architectures set CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT properly, we provide ranges for the size though so even if CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT has a sensible aligned value it can be reduced to a non aligned value. Commit 6ebb017d ("printk: Fix alignment of buf causing crash on ARM EABI") by Andrew Lunn ensures the static buffer is always aligned and the decision of alignment is done by the compiler by using __alignof__(struct log). When log_buf_len=n is used we allocate the ring buffer dynamically. Dynamic allocation varies, for the early allocation called before setup_arch() memblock_virt_alloc() requests a page aligment and for the default kernel allocation memblock_virt_alloc_nopanic() requests no special alignment, which in turn ends up aligning the allocation to SMP_CACHE_BYTES, which is L1 cache aligned. Since we already have the required alignment for the kernel ring buffer though we can do better and request explicit alignment for LOG_ALIGN. This does that to be safe and make dynamic allocation alignment explicit. Signed-off-by:Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Tested-by: