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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 00:01:52 +0000
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
CC: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
"Will Deacon" <will@...nel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
"Jean-Philippe Brucker" <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@...dia.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
"iommu@...ts.linux.dev" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 03/12] iommu: Remove unrecoverable fault data
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 2:40 AM
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 03:51:30AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 10:59 AM
> > >
> > > On 2023/8/3 15:54, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > >> From: Lu Baolu<baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
> > > >> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2023 1:48 PM
> > > >>
> > > >> struct iommu_fault {
> > > >> __u32 type;
> > > >> - __u32 padding;
> > > > this padding should be kept.
> > > >
> > >
> > > To keep above 64-bit aligned, right?
> > >
> >
> > yes
>
> If it is not uapi we should not explicitly document padding (and __u32
> should be u32). The compiler will add it if it is necessary.
>
> If the compiler isn't right for some reason then something else has
> gone wrong.
>
I thought this will be used as uAPI later. I'm fine to leave it be and
add the padding when the uAPI is introduced.
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