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* [PATCH 3 of 5] xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header
       [not found] <patchbomb.1224031839@abulafia.goop.org>
@ 2008-10-15  0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2008-10-16  9:12   ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2008-10-15  0:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: linux-kernel, Isaku Yamahata, NetDev, Ingo Molnar

From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>

Align ip header to a 16 byte boundary to avoid unaligned
access like other drivers.
Without this patch, xen-netfront doesn't work well on ia64.

[ Jeff, this is the only patch in the series which is in your
  territory. -J ]

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -239,10 +239,13 @@
 	 */
 	batch_target = np->rx_target - (req_prod - np->rx.rsp_cons);
 	for (i = skb_queue_len(&np->rx_batch); i < batch_target; i++) {
-		skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, RX_COPY_THRESHOLD,
+		skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, RX_COPY_THRESHOLD + NET_IP_ALIGN,
 					 GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (unlikely(!skb))
 			goto no_skb;
+
+		/* Align ip header to a 16 bytes boundary */
+		skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
 
 		page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!page) {



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* Re: [PATCH 3 of 5] xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header
  2008-10-15  0:50 ` [PATCH 3 of 5] xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header Jeremy Fitzhardinge
@ 2008-10-16  9:12   ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2008-10-16  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge; +Cc: linux-kernel, Isaku Yamahata, NetDev, Ingo Molnar

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
> 
> Align ip header to a 16 byte boundary to avoid unaligned
> access like other drivers.
> Without this patch, xen-netfront doesn't work well on ia64.
> 
> [ Jeff, this is the only patch in the series which is in your
>   territory. -J ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied



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