Re: 2.6.13-rc7 qla2xxx unaligned accesses

[Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:22:52 -0700, 
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> 2.6.13-rc7 + kdb on ia64.  The qla2xxx drivers are getting unaligned
>> accesses at startup.
>> 
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 66, iobase 0xc00000080f300000
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Configuring PCI space...
>> PCI: slot 0000:01:02.0 has incorrect PCI cache line size of 0 bytes, correcting to 128
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Waiting for LIP to complete...
>> qla2300 0000:01:02.0: Cable is unplugged...
>> scsi1 : qla2xxx
>> kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000300667800c, ip=0xa0000001005cd0b1
>
>Yes, I have a fix for this in my patch-queue.  I'll attach it here for
>reference.  I'll forward onto linux-scsi post 2.6.13.
>
>--
>av
>
>---
>
>On some platforms the hard-casting of the 8 byte node_name
>and port_name arrays to an u64 would cause unaligned-access
>warnings.  Generalize the conversions with consistent
>shifting of WWN bytes.
>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
>---
>
> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
>24e16c86578498fd71a3e33bebbd8be7323a03c6
>diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
>--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
>+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
>@@ -345,6 +345,15 @@ struct class_device_attribute *qla2x00_h
> 
> /* Host attributes. */
> 
>+static u64
>+wwn_to_u64(uint8_t *wwn)
>+{
>+	return (u64)wwn[0] << 56 | (u64)wwn[1] << 48 |
>+	    (u64)wwn[2] << 40 | (u64)wwn[3] << 32 |
>+	    (u64)wwn[4] << 24 | (u64)wwn[5] << 16 |
>+	    (u64)wwn[6] <<  8 | (u64)wwn[7];
>+}
>+

Any reason you defined your own function instead of using the standard
get_unaligned()?