netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] s390/diag: add diag26c support

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:37:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Cc:     jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        raspl@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] s390/diag: add diag26c support

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:34:25 +0200

> We (as in the s390 guys) tend to add __packed to hardware and hypervisor
> structures even if the attribute is not strictly necessary. Most of the
> diagnose related structures look that way. Dunno if it is worth to change
> them.

It causes gcc to generate bad code on certain platforms (yes, probably not
yours) and is in general something to avoid.

Please do not use __packed unless absolutely necessary.

> The diag26c struct needs to be aligned on a doubleword boundary, the
> __aligned(8) is necessary.

That's fine.

> The __packed attribute is again superfluous but follows along the
> lines of the other diag structures.

Please remove it.