On Friday, August 19, 2016 5:55:06 PM CEST Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c > > index 93583b389058..ecf543014da3 100644 > > --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c > > +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c > > @@ -521,16 +521,19 @@ static void pci_release_host_bridge_dev(struct device *dev) > > kfree(bridge); > > } > > > > -static struct pci_host_bridge *pci_alloc_host_bridge(void) > > +static struct pci_host_bridge *pci_alloc_host_bridge(size_t priv) > > { > > struct pci_host_bridge *bridge; > > > > - bridge = kzalloc(sizeof(*bridge), GFP_KERNEL); > > + bridge = kzalloc(sizeof(*bridge) + priv, GFP_KERNEL); > > if (!bridge) > > return NULL; > > > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bridge->windows); > > > > + if (priv) > > + bridge->private = &bridge[1]; > > How about making private a zero length array ? Right, the member can actually be removed here if we want to, this was just meant as a shorthand so we can avoid the cast or function call in device drivers. I think either way makes sense. Also, someone commented on a related issue in the previous version, and I recommended to align it to ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN. This might be done more easily with the zero-length array using struct pci_host_bridge { ... unsigned long private[0] __attribute__((aligned(ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN))); }; Without this, we need a bit more computation, like bridge = kzalloc(ALIGN(sizeof(*bridge), ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN) + priv, GFP_KERNEL); bridge->private = (void *)bridge + ALIGN(sizeof(*bridge); or static inline void *pci_bridge_private(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge) { return (void *)bridge + ALIGN(sizeof(*bridge); } static inline struct pci_host_bridge *pci_bridge_from_private(void *priv) { return priv - ALIGN(sizeof(*bridge); } The alignment is needed if the private structure contains any data that we may want to transfer using DMA. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html