netdev - RE: [PATCH] openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow

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Message-ID: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B731F@saturn3.aculab.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:18:21 +0100
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Jesse Gross" <jesse@...ira.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	"Andy Zhou" <azhou@...ira.com>,
	"Fengguang Wu" <fengguan.wu@...el.com>,
	"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] openvswitch: Fix alignment of struct sw_flow_key.

> -} __aligned(__alignof__(long));
> +} __aligned(8); /* 8 byte alignment ensures this can be accessed as a long */

Don't you really want __aligned(MAX(__alignof__(__be64), sizeof (long))) ?

	David



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