Re: [PATCH 1/6] GenWQE PCI support, health monitoring and recovery

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Thursday 05 December 2013, Frank Haverkamp wrote:
> > > Was wrong, as already pointed out before. It is now:
> > > 
> > > struct genwqe_mem {
> > >     __u64 addr;
> > >     __u64 size;
> > >     int direction;
> > > };
> > > 
> > > I hope the int is ok here.
> > 
> > No, it's not. The problem is that sizeof(struct genwqe_mem) is now 24 on
> > most architectures (including x86-64) and 20 on x86-32.
> 
> Interesting. So int is like long architecture specific. I changed it to
> be __u64 too, to avoid any problem.

The solution is ok, but the problem is different from what you thought:

On all architectures that Linux runs on, 'int' is 32 bit. The problem is
again the alignment of __u64. On normal architectures, it is naturally
aligned, and gcc adds 4 byte padding so that 'sizeof (struct genwqe_mem)'
is  multiple of the required alignment. On x86-32, the required alignment
for the __u64 members is only 4 bytes, so no padding is added.

	Arnd