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Subject[Question] Alignment requirement for readX() and writeX()
Hi,

The background is that I'm reviewing Wedson's PR on IoMem for
Rust-for-Linux project:

https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/462

readX() and writeX() are used to provide Rust code to read/write IO
memory. And I want to find whether we need to check the alignment of the
pointer. I wonder whether the addresses passed to readX() and writeX()
need to be aligned to the size of the accesses (e.g. the parameter of
readl() has to be a 4-byte aligned pointer).

The only related information I get so far is the following quote in
Documentation/driver-io/device-io.rst:

On many platforms, I/O accesses must be aligned with respect to
the access size; failure to do so will result in an exception or
unpredictable results.

Does it mean all readX() and writeX() need to use aligned addresses?
Or the alignment requirement is arch-dependent, i.e. if the architecture
supports and has enabled misalignment load and store, no alignment
requirement on readX() and writeX(), otherwise still need to use aligned
addresses.

I know different archs have their own alignment requirement on memory
accesses, just want to make sure the requirement of the readX() and
writeX() APIs.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Boqun

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