RE: [PATCH] x86, tboot: iomem fixes

From: Ren, Qiaowei
Date: Sat Jul 20 2013 - 12:16:55 EST


On 2013-07-20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> +#define SINIT_MLE_DATA_VTD_DMAR_OFF 140
>
>> /* get addr of DMAR table */ + dmar_tbl_off = readl(heap_ptr +
>> SINIT_MLE_DATA_VTD_DMAR_OFF); dmar_tbl = (struct acpi_table_header
>> *)(heap_ptr +
>> - ((struct sinit_mle_data *)heap_ptr)->vtd_dmars_off -
>> - sizeof(u64));
>> + dmar_tbl_off - sizeof(u64));
>
> So the offset of ->vtd_dmars_off within struct sinit_mle_data is 140?
>
> The new code is less readable: what's wrong with getting the offset
> automatically via C, instead of hardcoding it manually? You can use
> offsetof() primitive for increased readability.
>
Ok. Thanks for your suggestion. I will try to use offsetof() to increase readability.

Thanks,
Qiaowei

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