From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> clang complains about taking the address of a packed member of a struct: target/i386/kvm.c:1245:27: warning: taking address of packed member 'cpuid' of class or structure '' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member] c = cpuid_find_entry(&cpuid_data.cpuid, 1, 0); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ target/i386/kvm.c:1297:31: warning: taking address of packed member 'cpuid' of class or structure '' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member] c = cpuid_find_entry(&cpuid_data.cpuid, kvm_base, 0); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The kernel's definitions of struct kvm_cpuid2 and struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 are carefully set up with padding fields so that there is no between-struct padding anyway, so the QEMU_PACKED annotation is unnecessary and might result in the compiler generating worse code. Drop it, and instead assert at build time that there is no stray padding. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20181210114654.31433-1-peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx> --- target/i386/kvm.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c index b2401d13ea..739cf8c8ea 100644 --- a/target/i386/kvm.c +++ b/target/i386/kvm.c @@ -864,7 +864,15 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs) struct { struct kvm_cpuid2 cpuid; struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 entries[KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES]; - } QEMU_PACKED cpuid_data; + } cpuid_data; + /* + * The kernel defines these structs with padding fields so there + * should be no extra padding in our cpuid_data struct. + */ + QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(cpuid_data) != + sizeof(struct kvm_cpuid2) + + sizeof(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2) * KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES); + X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(cs); CPUX86State *env = &cpu->env; uint32_t limit, i, j, cpuid_i; -- 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140