On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 08:46:07AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 5 May 2017 at 19:38, Lukas Wunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The CPER parser assumes that the class code is big endian, but at least
> > on this edk2-derived Intel Purley platform it's little endian:
[snip]
> > --- a/include/linux/cper.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/cper.h
> > @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ struct cper_sec_pcie {
> >         struct {
> >                 __u16   vendor_id;
> >                 __u16   device_id;
> > -               __u8    class_code[3];
> > +               __u32   class_code:24;
> 
> I'd like to avoid this change if we can. Couldn't we simply invert the
> order of p[] above?

Hm, why would you like to avoid it?  The class_code element isn't
referenced anywhere else in the kernel and this isn't a uapi header,
so the change would only impact out-of-tree drivers.  Not sure if
any exist which might be interested in CPER parsing.

Thanks,

Lukas
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