Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:48:53 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/2] documentation: Record reason for rcu_head two-byte alignment |
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> That does have much to say for itself, though I would prefer sizeof(void > *) to sizeof(unsigned long). But would it make sense to define a mask > on a per-architecture basis, with the default being (sizeof(void *) - 1)? > Then maybe an IMPROPERLY_ALIGNED_POINTER(): > > #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_POINTER_ALIGNMENT > #define CONFIG_ARCH_POINTER_ALIGNMENT (sizeof(void *) - 1) > #endif > > #define IMPROPERLY_ALIGNED_POINTER(p) \ > ((p) & CONFIG_ARCH_POINTER_ALIGNMENT) > > m68k would define ARCH_POINTER_ALIGNMENT to 1, and all other arches > would leave it undefined. > > Then __call_rcu() could to this: > > WARN_ON_ONCE(IMPROPERLY_ALIGNED_POINTER(head));
Don't we have __alignof__(void *) to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_M68K and other new macros ?
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