Re: [PATCH v2] module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module parameters

Rusty Russell
2011-02-14T03:52:37Z

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:33:56 am Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >From 03f1332fc02af7af0d06ab409e3ec72107637845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:47:20 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module parameters
>
> As DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into independent
> objects, put them into a special section, and then expect array
> access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
> objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices
> in different situations. The only solution that seems to work
> reliably is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in
> question and put those pointers in the special section.

I've applied this, but won't put it to linux-next. I'll let it stew for
a bit longer unless someone actually reports a problem with the current
code.

Thanks,
Rusty.