Host needs to know vring element alignment requirements:
simply doing alignof on structures doesn't work reliably: on some
platforms gcc has alignof(uint32_t) == 2.
Add macros for alignment as specified in virtio 1.0 cs01,
export them to userspace as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
index 61c818a..a3318f3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ struct vring {
struct vring_used *used;
};
+/* Alignment requirements for vring elements.
+ * When using pre-virtio 1.0 layout, these fall out naturally.
+ */
+#define VRING_AVAIL_ALIGN_SIZE 2
+#define VRING_USED_ALIGN_SIZE 4
+#define VRING_DESC_ALIGN_SIZE 16
+
/* The standard layout for the ring is a continuous chunk of memory which looks
* like this. We assume num is a power of 2.
*
--
MST
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