to match the new state of affairs. The hardware we support has always been
able to do unaligned accesses, we've just never enabled it until now.
This brings FreeBSD into line with all the other major OSes, and should help
with the growing volume of 3rd-party software that assumes unaligned access
will just work on armv6 and armv7.
compilers can emit arm instructions that require 8-byte alignment. The
alignment-sensitive instructions were added in armv5, which has to be
supported by our combined v4/v5 kernels, so the value is set uncoditionally
for all arm architecture versions.
Also adjust the comment to explain in more detail why the macros have the
form and values they do.
Per advice from bde@, maintain the unsignedness of the value of _ALIGNBYTES
(but do so using his second choice of allowing sizeof() to supply the
unsignedness, rather than just hardcoding '8U', which in my mind would
require an even more verbose comment to explain why it's right). Also
explain in the comment that the resulting type of _ALIGN() is equivelent
to uinptr_t on arm (32-bit unsigned int), but it's purposely spelled as
"unsigned" to avoid problems with including other header files. Even
including machine/_types.h to allow use of __uintptr_t causes compilation
failures because of this header being included (indirectly) in asm code.
The discussion that led to this change (albeit at a glacial pace) is at
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-November/064593.html
