On 14.12.2016 19:06, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi David, > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 6:56 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just marking the structure __packed, whether necessary or not, makes >> the compiler assume that the members are not aligned and causes >> byte-by-byte accesses to be performed for words. >> Never, _ever_, use __packed unless absolutely necessary, it pessimizes >> the code on cpus that require proper alignment of types. > > Oh, jimminy cricket, I did not realize that it made assignments > byte-by-byte *always*. So what options am I left with? What > immediately comes to mind are: > > 1) > > struct { > u64 a; > u32 b; > u32 c; > u16 d; > u8 end[]; I don't think this helps. Did you test it? I don't see reason why padding could be left out between `d' and `end' because of the flexible array member? Bye, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html