On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:33:04 +0100 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The sie block must be aligned to 512 bytes. Mark it as such. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h > b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 0ea82152d2f7..2d50f6c432e2 > 100644 --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h > +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h > @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_sie_block { > __u64 itdba; /* 0x01e8 */ > __u64 riccbd; /* 0x01f0 */ > __u64 gvrd; /* 0x01f8 */ > -} __attribute__((packed)); > +} __packed __aligned(512); > > struct kvm_s390_itdb { > __u8 data[256]; I agree with the addition of aligned, but did you really have to remove packed? it makes me a little uncomfortable. do we have any compile-time assertions that the size of the block will be the one we expect?