linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] TPM: Switch to __packed instead of __attribute_

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:30:19 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Kent Yoder <key@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Huewe <PeterHuewe@....de>, Peter.Huewe@...ineon.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TPM: Switch to __packed instead of
 __attribute__((packed))

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:23:56PM -0600, Kent Yoder wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:50:24PM +0100, Peter Huewe wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2012, 21:56:45 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> > > This seems to be preferred these days.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
> > 
> > Looks good to me
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>
> 
> Applied. I also rolled in an update to tpm_acpi.c to this commit:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_acpi.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_acpi.c
> index 56051d0..64420b3 100644
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_acpi.c
> @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ struct acpi_tcpa {
>  	u16 platform_class;
>  	union {
>  		struct client_hdr {
> -			u32 log_max_len __attribute__ ((packed));
> -			u64 log_start_addr __attribute__ ((packed));
> +			u32 log_max_len __packed;
> +			u64 log_start_addr __packed;
>  		} client;
>  		struct server_hdr {
>  			u16 reserved;
> -			u64 log_max_len __attribute__ ((packed));
> -			u64 log_start_addr __attribute__ ((packed));
> +			u64 log_max_len __packed;
> +			u64 log_start_addr __packed;
>  		} server;
>  	};
>  };

Thanks, I looked at those as well, but I couldn't grok the
intent. What does __packed on a member even do??

Certainly client_hdr should be moved to the struct, maybe server_hdr
too?

Jason
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