Hi Jakub,
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:56:42 -0800 Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> What's the offending structure in hisilicon? I'd rather have a look
> packing structs with pointers in 'em sounds questionable.
>
> I only see these two:
>
> $ git grep packed drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hnae.h:struct __packed hnae_desc {
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h:struct __packed hns3_desc {struct hclge_dbg_reg_type_info which is 28 bytes long due to the included struct struct hclge_dbg_reg_common_msg (which is 12 bytes long). They are surrounded by #pragma pack(1)/pack(). This forces the 2 pointers in each second array element of hclge_dbg_reg_info[] to be 4 byte aligned (where pointers are 8 bytes long on PPC64). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
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