On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:27:57PM -0800, Joe Damato wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:08:36PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 01:47:33AM +0000, Joe Damato wrote:
> > > +struct epoll_params {
> > > + __aligned_u64 busy_poll_usecs;
> > > + __u16 busy_poll_budget;
> > > +
> > > + /* pad the struct to a multiple of 64bits for alignment on all arches */
> > > + __u8 __pad[6];
> >
> > You HAVE to check this padding to be sure it is all 0, otherwise it can
> > never be used in the future for anything.
>
> Is there some preferred mechanism for this in the kernel that I should be
> using or is this as simple as adding a for loop to check each u8 == 0 ?
memchr_inv()
-Dave.
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