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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D0F6B77F1@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:54:59 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'James Hogan' <james.hogan@...tec.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] drivers: staging: lustre: lustre: include: add
 "__attribute__((packed))" for the related union

From: James Hogan
> On 03/02/14 10:35, David Laight wrote:
> > From: James Hogan
> >> Combining __packed with __aligned(2) does the trick though (__packed
> >> alone sets __aligned(1) which is obviously going to be suboptimal).
...
> 
> Meta is also one of those arches, and according to my quick tests,
> __packed alone does correctly make it fall back to byte loads/stores,
> but with __packed __aligned(2) it uses 16bit loads/stores. I've also
> confirmed that with an ARM toolchain (see below for example).

I would either:
1a) Add explicit padding to the relevant structures so that they are
   multiple of 4 bytes.
or:
1b) #define some token to "__packed __aligned(2)" before all the structures
   that require changing, and use that in there definitions.
   This lets you comment on WHY you are doing it.
and:
2) Add a compile-time assert that the structures are the correct size.

Clearly you don't want to mark anything that contains a 32bit value
with __packed __aligned(2).

I'm not at all clear whether you are sometimes using a different compiler.

	David



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