On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:31:13 +0900
Akinobu Mita <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> Should this hash_table be converted from u16 hash_table[32] to
> >> DECLARE_BITMAP(hash_table, 16 * 32) to ensure that it is aligned
> >> on long-word boundary?
> >
> > I think hash_table is already long-word aligned because it is placed
> > right after a pointer.
> 
> I recommend converting to proper bitmap.  Because such an implicit
> assumption is easily broken by someone touching this function.

Do you mean something like:
        DECLARE_BITMAP(__hash_table, 16 * 32);
        u16 *hash_table = (u16 *)__hash_table;
?

Grant, what do you think about this?

        Takuya


===
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/tulip_core.c:

static void build_setup_frame_hash(u16 *setup_frm, struct net_device *dev)
{
        struct tulip_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
        u16 hash_table[32];
        ...
}

drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/de2104x.c:

static void build_setup_frame_hash(u16 *setup_frm, struct net_device *dev)
{
        struct de_private *de = netdev_priv(dev);
        u16 hash_table[32];
        ...
}
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