On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Kieran Bingham
<kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The use of the packed attribute can cause a performance penalty for
> all accesses to the struct members, as the compiler will assume that the
> structure has the potential to have an unaligned base.
>
> These structures are all correctly aligned and contain no holes, thus
> the attribute is redundant and negatively impacts performance, so we
> remove the attributes entirely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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