On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 13:18 -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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6...@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;
> };
Why use an anonymous union for a single element?
Why not make struct vfio_eeh_pe_err __aligned(8)?
Why not make the u64 structure elements of
struct ufio_eeh_pe_err __aligned_u64?
