linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/2] documentation: Record reason for rcu

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:18:54 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, jiangshanlai@...il.com,
        dipankar@...ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
        Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        oleg@...hat.com, pranith kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/2] documentation: Record reason for
 rcu_head two-byte alignment

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:56:09 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > Don't we have __alignof__(void *) to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_M68K and
> > other new macros ?  
> 
> Yes, but that 'hides' the m68k funny, while doing an explicit #ifdef has
> documentation value... but I don't care too deeply.

I'd recommend keeping the #ifdef, and then if another architecture
comes along that is as weird as m68k, we can use the generic
__alignof__(void *). Maybe even add that in the comment, so when/if
that arch is created, people will know how to fix it more generically.

-- Steve