On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 09:25:12PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>
> > +struct kvm_s390_gisa {
> > + u32 next_alert;
> > + u8 ipm;
> > + u8 reserved01;
> > + u8:6;
> > + u8 g:1;
> > + u8 c:1;
> > + u8 iam;
> > + u8 reserved02[4];
> > + u32 airq_count;
> > +};
> > +
> > /*
> > - * sie_page2 has to be allocated as DMA because fac_list and crycb need
> > - * 31bit addresses in the sie control block.
> > + * sie_page2 has to be allocated as DMA because fac_list, crycb and
> > + * gisa need 31bit addresses in the sie control block.
> > */
> > struct sie_page2 {
> > __u64 fac_list[S390_ARCH_FAC_LIST_SIZE_U64]; /* 0x0000 */
> > struct kvm_s390_crypto_cb crycb; /* 0x0800 */
> > - u8 reserved900[0x1000 - 0x900]; /* 0x0900 */
> > + struct kvm_s390_gisa gisa __aligned(sizeof(struct kvm_s390_gisa)); /* 0x0900 */
>
> can we instead specify sie_page2 as packed if really needed? (I can see
> that we have a BUILD_BUG_ON below, which is nice)
>
> (alignment within well defined data structures looks strange)
The alignment, if needed, should go to the definition of struct
kvm_s390_gisa above. The structure needs at least an alignment of eight
bytes since bitops are used to modify ipm (in a later patch), by using a
(long *) cast to this structure.
But of course it is all naturally aligned anyway... ;)
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