Re: [PATCH 1/6] xfs: remove the agfl_bno member from struct xfs_agfl

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On 1/30/20 7:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> struct xfs_agfl is a header in front of the AGFL entries that exists
> for CRC enabled file systems.  For not CRC enabled file systems the AGFL
> is simply a list of agbno.  Make the CRC case similar to that by just
> using the list behind the new header.  This indirectly solves a problem
> with modern gcc versions that warn about taking addresses of packed
> structures (and we have to pack the AGFL given that gcc rounds up
> structure sizes).  Also replace the helper macro to get from a buffer
> with an inline function in xfs_alloc.h to make the code easier to
> read.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

I like it.

Giving it an RVB but are we 100% sure that there won't ever be any padding
after the xfs_agfl structure before the bno?  I don't understand gcc
alignment magic.

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>






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