Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] hpsa: use __packed on individual structs, not header-wide

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 03:44:43 EST


On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:30 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:22 AM Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > @@ -451,7 +452,7 @@ struct CommandList {
> > bool retry_pending;
> > struct hpsa_scsi_dev_t *device;
> > atomic_t refcount; /* Must be last to avoid memset in hpsa_cmd_init() */
> > -} __aligned(COMMANDLIST_ALIGNMENT);
> > +} __packed __aligned(COMMANDLIST_ALIGNMENT);
>
> You are still marking CommandList as __packed here, which is
> what caused the original problem. Please don't mark this one
> as __packed at all. If there are individual members that you want
> to be misaligned inside of the structure, you could mark those
> explicitly.

Nevermind, I just got patch 2/3, splitting up the patches like this seems
fine to me.

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Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>