Re: [RFC PATCH 00/25] exec: Add load/store API for aligned pointers

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/19/21 9:20 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 5/18/21 1:36 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> The series is decomposed as:
>> - cleanups (1-6)
>> - clean ldst API using macros (7-13)
>> - add aligned ldst methods (14)
>> - add aligned memory methods (15-16)
>> - similar changes in virtio (17-24)
>> - use the new methods on vring aligned values (25)
>>
>> There are some checkpatch errors related to the macro used.
> 
> I think we should emphasize the atomicness of the access as opposed to
> the alignedness.  That's the only thing that's important to virtio.
> 
> Thus s/aligned/atomic/g and use qatomic_read/qatomic_set.

OK.

Do you think patches 1-6, 17 (Use correct type sizes) could
go in meanwhile, or should I repost them separately?