Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] xen/misc: Functional cleanup for __attribute__((packed)) changes

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 13/03/14 16:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 13.03.14 at 16:04, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mce-apei.c
>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ struct cper_mce_record {
>>  	struct cper_record_header hdr;
>>  	struct cper_section_descriptor sec_hdr;
>>  	struct mce mce;
>> -} __packed;
>> +} __attribute__((packed));
>>  /* Reset to default packing */
>>  #pragma pack()
> I'm sorry for paying attention only now, but you apparently didn't
> notice this either: The #pragma pack() around that structure was
> the apparent attempt to deal with __packed "not functioning". We
> should get rig of these pragmas at the same time I think.
>
> Jan
>

I did notice that, but was hoping to ignore it for the time being (as
this __packed series has become rather longer than the half hour task I
planned it to be)

I shall do a new following patch which replaces the use of #pragma
pack() in Xen, which doesn't look too difficult.

~Andrew