Hi David,
On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 10:18 +0000, David Laight wrote:
From: Alexey Brodkin
Sent: 09 July 2018 11:00
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That's a good idea indeed but it doesn't solve the problem with struct devres_node. Consider the following snippet: -------------------------------->8------------------------------- struct mystruct { atomic64_t myvar; }
struct mystruct *p; p = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); -------------------------------->8-------------------------------
Here myvar address will match address of "data" member of struct devres_node. So if "data" is has offset of 12 bytes from the beginning of a page then myvar won't be 64-bit aligned regardless of myvar's attribute, right?
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- unsigned long long data[]; /* guarantee ull alignment */
Ahh, that line should be: u8 data[] __aligned(8); /* Guarantee 64bit alignment */
And that pretty much what I suggested in my initial patch :)
For the record x86 has exactly the same atomic64_t as you suggested, see https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64...: ---------------------->8------------------ typedef struct { u64 __aligned(8) counter; } atomic64_t; ---------------------->8------------------
-Alexey