linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation/kvm/msr.txt

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Message-ID: <4C03C1B1.8010102@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 May 2010 17:03:29 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	zamsden@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Documentation/kvm/msr.txt

On 05/31/2010 04:49 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
>> How are we failing to meet it?  All guests align to at least four bytes.
>>      
> static struct pvclock_wall_clock wall_clock;
>
> Unless there is something that the compiler does that I should take for granted,
> there is no alignment directive in there, and it could be anywhere.
>    

The compiler will align u32 and larger to 4 bytes on i386 (and align u64 
to 8 bytes on x86_64).

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