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Message-ID: <20151221005622.GR3011@voom.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:56:22 +1100
From: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel] vfio: Add explicit alignments in
vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_create
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:35:47PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> The vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_create struct has 4x32bit and 2x64bit fields
> which should have resulted in sizeof(fio_iommu_spapr_tce_create) equal
> to 32 bytes. However due to the gcc's default alignment, the actual
> size of this struct is 40 bytes.
>
> This fills gaps with __resv1/2 fields.
>
> This should not cause any change in behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Oops, that was a bit sloppy. Oh well.
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> index 9fd7b5d..d117233 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> @@ -568,8 +568,10 @@ struct vfio_iommu_spapr_tce_create {
> __u32 flags;
> /* in */
> __u32 page_shift;
> + __u32 __resv1;
> __u64 window_size;
> __u32 levels;
> + __u32 __resv2;
> /* out */
> __u64 start_addr;
> };
--
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