Re: [PATCH] pvcalls-front: 64-bit align flags

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 02/27/2018 02:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > We are using test_and_* operations on the status and flag fields of
> > struct sock_mapping. However, these functions require the operand to be
> > 64-bit aligned on arm64. Currently, only status is 64-bit aligned.
> >
> > Make flags 64-bit aligned by introducing an explicit padding field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> > index ca5b773..aa07b2a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> > @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct sock_mapping {
> >  #define PVCALLS_STATUS_BIND          1
> >  #define PVCALLS_STATUS_LISTEN        2
> >  			uint8_t status;
> > +			uint8_t pad[7];
> 
> Does this guarantee alignment (for either status or flag)?

Yes: status is part of a struct and a union. Unions and structs have the
alignment of their most aligned type. In this case they are 64-bit
aligned, as some of the fields are pointers.

The padding makes sure that flags is 1+7 bytes from it.

 
> >  		/*
> >  		 * Internal state-machine flags.
> >  		 * Only one accept operation can be inflight for a socket.
>