Re: [patch] HWBKPT: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 19:38 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > index 1438463..30c78bd 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > @@ -211,11 +211,9 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
> >               __u32           wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup   */
> >       };
> >  
> > -     __u32                   __reserved_2;
> > -
> > -     __u64                   bp_addr;
> >       __u32                   bp_type;
> > -     __u32                   bp_len;
> > +     __u64                   bp_addr;
> > +     __u64                   bp_len;
> >  };
> 
> 
> 
> Peter, what do you think about this new layout?
> Putting the bp_type right after the wakeup_* fields
> is going to remove the padding difference between
> 64 and 32 archs. That looks better than the __reserved_2
> we had.

Right, I think this works nicely in that all elements will be naturally
aligned and not result in different layouts between 32/64 bit builds.

> If this patch can make it for .33, it would be nice.

It has to make .33, if it doesn't you're hosed because then the old
layout is fixed in stone.