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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/vfio: Fix an 8-byte alignment issue
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:18:19PM -0500, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> This patch adds a 4-byte reserved field in the structure
> vfio_eeh_pe_op to make sure that the u64 fields in the structure
> vfio_eeh_pe_err are 8-byte aligned.

Won't this break 32-bit kernels? That is the size of the structure
will now be 4 bytes bigger..
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/vfio.h | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> index 1aa7b82..3e71ded 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ struct vfio_eeh_pe_op {
> __u32 argsz;
> __u32 flags;
> __u32 op;
> + __u32 __res;
> union {
> struct vfio_eeh_pe_err err;
> };
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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