linux-kernel - dm log: struct log_write_super and padding (was: Re: dm: add log writes target)

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Date:	Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:16:05 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	dm-devel@...hat.com, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: dm log: struct log_write_super and padding (was: Re: dm: add log
 writes target)

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> wrote:
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=0e9cebe724597a76ab1b0ebc0a21e16f7db11b47
> Commit:     0e9cebe724597a76ab1b0ebc0a21e16f7db11b47

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,825 @@

> +/*
> + * Basic info about the log for userspace.
> + */
> +struct log_write_super {
> +       __le64 magic;
> +       __le64 version;
> +       __le64 nr_entries;
> +       __le32 sectorsize;

Should there be an explicit padding of 4 bytes?
Does anything assume that sizeof(struct log_write_super) is always 4 * 8?

On architectures where the natural alignment of 64-bit quantities is less
than 8 bytes, sizeof(struct log_write_super) is smaller than 32 bytes
(e.g. on m68k it's 28).

> +};

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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