From: Alexey Brodkin
> Sent: 09 July 2018 11:00
...
> That's a good idea indeed but it doesn't solve the problem with
> struct devres_node. Consider the following snippet:
> -------------------------------->8-------------------------------
> struct mystruct {
> atomic64_t myvar;
> }
>
> struct mystruct *p;
> p = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
> -------------------------------->8-------------------------------
>
> Here myvar address will match address of "data" member of struct devres_node.
> So if "data" is has offset of 12 bytes from the beginning of a page then
> myvar won't be 64-bit aligned regardless of myvar's attribute, right?
...
> > > - unsigned long long data[]; /* guarantee ull alignment */
Ahh, that line should be:
u8 data[] __aligned(8); /* Guarantee 64bit alignment */
David
