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Subject[RFC 14/20] timens: Add align for timens_offsets
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Align offsets so that Time Namespace will work for ia32 applications on
x86_64 host.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
---
include/linux/timens_offsets.h | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/timens_offsets.h b/include/linux/timens_offsets.h
index 777530c46852..92a8ea5601eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/timens_offsets.h
+++ b/include/linux/timens_offsets.h
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_TIME_OFFSETS_H
#define _LINUX_TIME_OFFSETS_H

+/*
+ * Time offsets need align as they're placed on vvar page,
+ * which should have tail paddings on ia32 vdso.
+ * Otherwise as u64 has align(4), vvar offsets will differ.
+ * On 64-bit big-endian systems vdso should convert to timespec64
+ * to timespec because of a padding occuring between the fields.
+ */
struct timens_offsets {
- struct timespec64 monotonic_time_offset;
- struct timespec64 monotonic_boottime_offset;
+ struct timespec64 monotonic_time_offset __aligned(8);
+ struct timespec64 monotonic_boottime_offset __aligned(8);
};

#endif
--
2.13.6
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