Re: [PATCH] drivers/vfio: Fix an 8-byte alignment issue

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:18:19PM -0500, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> This patch adds a 4-byte reserved field in the structure
> vfio_eeh_pe_op to make sure that the u64 fields in the structure
> vfio_eeh_pe_err are 8-byte aligned.

Won't this break 32-bit kernels? That is the size of the structure
will now be 4 bytes bigger..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> index 1aa7b82..3e71ded 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ struct vfio_eeh_pe_op {
>  	__u32 argsz;
>  	__u32 flags;
>  	__u32 op;
> +	__u32 __res;
>  	union {
>  		struct vfio_eeh_pe_err err;
>  	};
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 



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