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Message-Id: <1479592438-17078-1-git-send-email-tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:53:58 -0800
From:   Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] i40e: remove unnecessary __packed

'struct i40e_dma_mem' defined with 'packed' directive causing kernel
unaligned errors on sparc.

e.g.
i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver - version
1.6.16-k
i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Intel Corporation.
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[44894c] dma_4v_alloc_coherent+0x1ac/0x300
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[44894c] dma_4v_alloc_coherent+0x1ac/0x300
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[44894c] dma_4v_alloc_coherent+0x1ac/0x300
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[44894c] dma_4v_alloc_coherent+0x1ac/0x300
Kernel unaligned access at TPC[44894c] dma_4v_alloc_coherent+0x1ac/0x300
i40e 0000:03:00.0: fw 5.1.40981 api 1.5 nvm 5.04 0x80002548 0.0.0

This can be fixed with get_unaligned/put_unaligned(). However no
reference in driver shows that 'struct i40e_dma_mem' directly shoved
into NIC hardware. But instead fields of the struct are being read and
used for hardware. Therefore, __packed is unnecessary for 'struct
i40e_dma_mem'.

In addition, although 'struct i40e_virt_mem' doesn't cause any
unaligned access, keeping it packed is unnecessary as well because
of aforementioned reason.

This change make 'struct i40e_dma_mem' and 'struct i40e_virt_mem'
unpacked.

Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_osdep.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_osdep.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_osdep.h
index 5b6feb7..be74bcf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_osdep.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_osdep.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct i40e_dma_mem {
 	void *va;
 	dma_addr_t pa;
 	u32 size;
-} __packed;
+};
 
 #define i40e_allocate_dma_mem(h, m, unused, s, a) \
 			i40e_allocate_dma_mem_d(h, m, s, a)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct i40e_dma_mem {
 struct i40e_virt_mem {
 	void *va;
 	u32 size;
-} __packed;
+};
 
 #define i40e_allocate_virt_mem(h, m, s) i40e_allocate_virt_mem_d(h, m, s)
 #define i40e_free_virt_mem(h, m) i40e_free_virt_mem_d(h, m)
-- 
1.9.1