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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 03/44] Add CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_STRUCT for taskstats
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:22 AM, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 08/12/12 03:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/05/2012 08:08 AM, James Hogan wrote:
>>> On 64 bit architectures with no efficient unaligned access, taskstats
>>> has to add some padding to a reply to prevent unaligned access warnings.
>>> However this also needs to apply to 32 bit architectures with 64 bit
>>> struct alignment such as metag (which has 64 bit memory accesses).
>>
>> Wait... 64-bit struct alignment on structures with only 32-bit members?
>> That might be... interesting... in a number of places...
>
> I'll rewrite the description as it's a bit misleading. On metag 64bit
> struct alignment is required when it contains 64bit members, not if it
> only contains 32bit members. Although metag is a 32bit arch, it can do
> 64bit memory accesses which must be aligned.

The C alignment rules should take care of this automatically (struct alignment
is the maximum alignment of its members).

You only have to override this manually in cases like this, where
64-bit quantities
are stored in char arrays:

struct buffer_data_page {
u64 time_stamp; /* page time stamp */
local_t commit; /* write committed index */
- unsigned char data[]; /* data of buffer page */
+ unsigned char data[] RB_ALIGN_DATA; /* data of buffer page */
};

(cfr. your other patch).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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