Re: [PATCH] KEYS: user: Align the payload buffer

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 15:50:53 EST


On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, David Howells wrote:

> David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'd make the 'datalen' field 'unsigned int' at the same time.
> > It will use some of the hole you've made and generate better
> > code on most arches.
>
> Most arches? I though most, if not all, arches had a load-word instruction.
>
> Do you want to send me a patch for that? I'd rather not alter this patch at
> this point. I can pass the additional patch to James for the next merge
> window.

Should this first one go into -rc?


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James Morris
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