Re: [PATCH] pvcalls-front: 64-bit align flags

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 16:50:32 EST


On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 02/27/2018 04:32 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> On 02/27/2018 02:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >>> We are using test_and_* operations on the status and flag fields of
> >>> struct sock_mapping. However, these functions require the operand to be
> >>> 64-bit aligned on arm64. Currently, only status is 64-bit aligned.
> >>>
> >>> Make flags 64-bit aligned by introducing an explicit padding field.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> >>> index ca5b773..aa07b2a 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> >>> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct sock_mapping {
> >>> #define PVCALLS_STATUS_BIND 1
> >>> #define PVCALLS_STATUS_LISTEN 2
> >>> uint8_t status;
> >>> + uint8_t pad[7];
> >> Does this guarantee alignment (for either status or flag)?
> > Yes: status is part of a struct and a union. Unions and structs have the
> > alignment of their most aligned type. In this case they are 64-bit
> > aligned, as some of the fields are pointers.
> >
> > The padding makes sure that flags is 1+7 bytes from it.
>
> OK.
>
> What about adding __attribute__((aligned(8))) to both (with a comment
> explaining reasoning)?

That's fine by me


> >
> >
> >>> /*
> >>> * Internal state-machine flags.
> >>> * Only one accept operation can be inflight for a socket.
>