linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Staging: hv: Fix vmbus load hang caused by wrong data packing

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:08:49 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tom Hanrahan <hanrahat@...rosoft.com>,
	Hashir Abdi <habdi@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Staging: hv: Fix vmbus load hang caused by wrong data 
	packing

Hi Hank,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com> wrote:
>>Ideally, we don't deal with packed structures at all, but with offsets
>>in memory and pick out the proper fields and put them into new
>>structures if you want to use them that way.  How hard would that be to
>>do here instead?
>
> It is something that I want to look at in the future. Our primary focus
> Is to get the bug fixed. We cannot do the offset way in the time we
> Have before 2.6.32 closes and still be comfortable we have gone through
> The extensive testing cycle we do on our side.

We don't merge fixes to the kernel unless we understand _why_ they fix
things. It's pretty likely that the problem here is that one or more
of the structs you are putting under "#pragma pack" just need to be
annotated with "attribute packed".

                        Pekka
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