On 12/2/22 03:11, Huang, Kai wrote: > And also to address you concern that not all 892 bytes are reserved, how about > below: > > union { > - struct cpuid_config cpuid_configs[0]; > - u8 reserved5[892]; > + DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(struct cpuid_config, cpuid_configs); > + u8 padding[892]; > }; > } __packed __aligned(TDSYSINFO_STRUCT_ALIGNMENT); > > The goal is to make the size of 'struct tdsysinfo_struct' to be 1024B so we can > use a static variable for it, and at the meantime, it can still have 1024B > (enough space) for the TDH.SYS.INFO to write to. I just don't like the open-coded sizes. For instance, wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to know the size of *ANYTHING* else to properly size the '892'? Maybe we just need some helpers to hide the gunk: #define DECLARE_PADDED_STRUCT(type, name, alignment) \ struct type##_padded { \ union { \ struct type name; \ u8 padding[alignment]; \ } \ } name##_padded; #define PADDED_STRUCT(name) (name##_padded.name) That can get used like this: DECLARE_PADDED_STRUCT(struct tdsysinfo_struct, tdsysinfo, TDSYSINFO_STRUCT_ALIGNMENT); struct tdsysinfo_struct sysinfo = PADDED_STRUCT(tdsysinfo)