Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] lib: checksum: Use aligned accesses for ip_fast_csum and csum_ipv6_magic tests

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 10:52:08 EST


On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 12:33:05PM -0800, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> The test cases for ip_fast_csum and csum_ipv6_magic were failing on a
> variety of architectures that are big endian or do not support
> misalgined accesses. Both of these test cases are changed to support big
> and little endian architectures.
>
> The test for ip_fast_csum is changed to align the data along (14 +
> NET_IP_ALIGN) bytes which is the alignment of an IP header. The test for
> csum_ipv6_magic aligns the data using a struct. An extra padding field
> is added to the struct to ensure that the size of the struct is the same
> on all architectures (44 bytes).
>
> Fixes: 6f4c45cbcb00 ("kunit: Add tests for csum_ipv6_magic and ip_fast_csum")
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think holding this up for the sake of parisc64 (where the test
fails on qemu if the addresses are not 8-byte aligned) make sense, so
I would suggest to move forward with this patch series and address any
remaining problems separately.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Guenter