linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/mce: Force alignment for atomic bit operations

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Message-Id: <1574710984-208305-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:43:04 -0800
From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:     "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        "Ashok Raj" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86" <x86@...nel.org>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] x86/mce: Force alignment for atomic bit operations

The "flags" field is passed to atomic bit operations which require
unsigned long alignment.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index dc2d4b206ab7..d16503c5602e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -134,10 +134,11 @@
  * is set.
  */
 struct mce_log_buffer {
+	/* Force alignment for atomic bit operations. */
+	unsigned flags;
 	char signature[12]; /* "MACHINECHECK" */
 	unsigned len;	    /* = MCE_LOG_LEN */
 	unsigned next;
-	unsigned flags;
 	unsigned recordlen;	/* length of struct mce */
 	struct mce entry[MCE_LOG_LEN];
 };
-- 
2.19.1