linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/36] tty: use u8 for chars

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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:33:12 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/36] tty: use u8 for chars

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:28:56PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2023, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:

...

> > @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ struct tty_buffer {
> >  	unsigned long data[];
> >  };
> >  
> > -static inline unsigned char *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
> > +static inline u8 *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
> >  {
> > -	return ((unsigned char *)b->data) + ofs;
> > +	return ((u8 *)b->data) + ofs;
> >  }
> 
> Any particular reason why b->data is left unsigned long?

It might be the performance issue due to unaligned accesses on some
architectures. But I'm just speculating...

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko