linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/hyper-v: move synic/stimer control structures definitions to hyperv-tlfs.h

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Message-ID: <87a7ltjxnz.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:37:04 +0100
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Cc:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "Michael Kelley \(EOSG\)" <Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "kvm\@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86\@kernel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/hyper-v: move synic/stimer control structures definitions to hyperv-tlfs.h

Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com> writes:

>
> On a different note: how come all of the hyper-v structs are not marked
> with the “packed" attribute?

"packed" should not be needed with proper padding; I vaguely remember
someone (from x86@?) arguing _against_ "packed".

-- 
Vitaly