Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] swsusp: Add ioctl for swap files support

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:13:38 +0200
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > To be able to use swap files as suspend storage from the userland suspend
> > tools we need an additional ioctl() that will allow us to provide the kernel
> > with both the swap header's offset and the identification of the resume
> > partition.
> > 
> > The new ioctl() should be regarded as a replacement for the
> > SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl() that from now on will be considered as
> > obsolete, but has to stay for backwards compatibility of the interface.
> > 
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * This structure is used to pass the values needed for the identification
> > + * of the resume swap area from a user space to the kernel via the
> > + * SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl
> > + */
> > +struct resume_swap_area {
> > +	u_int16_t dev;
> > +	loff_t offset;
> > +} __attribute__((packed));

> 
> hmm.  Asking the compiler to pack 16-bit and 64-bit quantities in this
> manner is a bit risky.  I guess it'll do the right thing, consistently,
> across all compiler versions and vendors and 32-bit-on-64-bit-kernel, etc.
> 
> But from a defensiveness/paranoia POV it'd be better to use a u32 here, I
> suspect.  (Will access to that loff_t cause an alignment trap on ia64?  Any
> other CPUs?  Dunno).

Perhaps just loff_t offset; u32 dev; ? If 64-bit variable is first, we
should avoid most problems, no?
								Pavel
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