>>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Tejun> If Martin is happy with it, I'm not gonna push it but putting the Tejun> respective storage member after one containing vararray at the Tejun> end is a legit way to allocate the area statically. As long as Tejun> the storage field is marked as such and not accessed directly, it Tejun> doesn't matter whether there's padding inbetween or not. The embedded array is still at the end. Kent just added an explicit pointer for use in the bio_pair corner case. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel