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Message-ID: <4CF9F7AB.8050802@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:11:23 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>
CC:	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mrubin@...gle.com, kvm-devel <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/15] ftrace: fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall

On 12/04/2010 02:13 AM, David Sharp wrote:
> Signed-off-by: David Sharp<dhsharp@...gle.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/trace.h |    8 ++++----
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h b/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> index a6544b8..ab41fb0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> @@ -62,21 +62,21 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_hv_hypercall,
>   	TP_ARGS(code, fast, rep_cnt, rep_idx, ingpa, outgpa),
>
>   	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> -		__field(	__u16, 		code		)
> -		__field(	bool,		fast		)
>   		__field(	__u16,		rep_cnt		)
>   		__field(	__u16,		rep_idx		)
>   		__field(	__u64,		ingpa		)
>   		__field(	__u64,		outgpa		)
> +		__field(	__u16, 		code		)
> +		__field(	bool,		fast		)
>   	),
>

Looks like a pessimisation.

Before: 24 bytes
After: 32 bytes

(on a 64-bit machine, assuming no packing)

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signature is too narrow to contain.

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