Re: [PATCH] tpm: introduce struct tpm_buf

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Jun 03 2015 - 13:09:07 EST


On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:48:51AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:43:34PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > I realized basically the same what you said here when I refined the
> > patch (read this email after sending v2) :) I decided that align to 8
> > bytes.
>
> Don't use the __attribute__((align)), use just a u64, the effect is
> identical, and the latter doesn't rely on compiler specific features.

Byte array is otherwise more convenient and this feature is widely used:

$ git grep "__attribute__((aligned" | wc -l
222

I don't see your point here.

> > I don't think the packed attribute is needed here because now I cast
> > the beginning to tpm_input_header, which is a packed struct.
>
> I ment the attributs could be changed on the tpm_input_header, the buf
> should just be a u64 array..
>
> Jason

/Jarkko
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