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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/35] workqueue: update cwq alignement
Hello,

On 06/29/2010 12:47 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> void __init init_workqueues(void)
>> {
>> + /*
>> + * cwqs are forced aligned according to WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS.
>> + * Make sure that the alignment isn't lower than that of
>> + * unsigned long long.
>> + */
>> + BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__(struct cpu_workqueue_struct) <
>> + __alignof__(unsigned long long));
>> +
>
> But they are not allocated contiguously as we use the per cpu offsets.
> So why does the struct itself need to be aligned? Only the base pointer
> of its dynamic allocation needs to be aligned. Or am I missing something?

work->data doesn't store the percpu pointer but the address of cwq of
that specific cpu as returned by per_cpu_ptr(), so each element needs
to be aligned. Besides, if the percpu ptr is aligned the elements are
aligned so they aren't different things.

> This is crashing my build in x86-32, unless I force an alignment to 8, or
> I just remove this build check.

Heh, how did that happen? I'll investigate. Can you please attach
your .config?

Thanks.

--
tejun


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