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From: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Lengfeld <s.lengfeld@phytec.de>
Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH upstream 1/4] state: use packet attribute for on storage structs
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 07:17:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHQ1cqFg11OsnMTX2bPsXq-SN6TkjVcCdYYzfeRDAw5RfTKoHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478073270-3527-1-git-send-email-s.lengfeld@phytec.de>

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Stefan Lengfeld <s.lengfeld@phytec.de> wrote:
> These structs are used for on-storage data layouts. They should be not
> affected by different integer precisions and alignment optimizations of
> 32bit or 64bit machines. Using the architecture independent integer data
> types, like uint32_t, achieves the former, using the packet attribute

 "packed" instead of "packet"?

> the later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Lengfeld <s.lengfeld@phytec.de>
> ---
>  common/state/backend_bucket_circular.c | 2 +-
>  common/state/backend_bucket_direct.c   | 2 +-
>  common/state/backend_format_raw.c      | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/state/backend_bucket_circular.c b/common/state/backend_bucket_circular.c
> index 72e165e..d8504e0 100644
> --- a/common/state/backend_bucket_circular.c
> +++ b/common/state/backend_bucket_circular.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct state_backend_storage_bucket_circular {
>         struct device_d *dev;
>  };
>
> -struct state_backend_storage_bucket_circular_meta {
> +struct __attribute__((__packed__)) state_backend_storage_bucket_circular_meta {

#include <linux/compiler.h> defines "__packed" macro which might make
things less verbose. Ditto for the rest of the changes in this patch.

>         uint32_t magic;
>         uint32_t written_length;
>  };
> diff --git a/common/state/backend_bucket_direct.c b/common/state/backend_bucket_direct.c
> index 08892f0..5225433 100644
> --- a/common/state/backend_bucket_direct.c
> +++ b/common/state/backend_bucket_direct.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct state_backend_storage_bucket_direct {
>         struct device_d *dev;
>  };
>
> -struct state_backend_storage_bucket_direct_meta {
> +struct __attribute__((__packed__)) state_backend_storage_bucket_direct_meta {
>         uint32_t magic;
>         uint32_t written_length;
>  };
> diff --git a/common/state/backend_format_raw.c b/common/state/backend_format_raw.c
> index 4209424..e028ea6 100644
> --- a/common/state/backend_format_raw.c
> +++ b/common/state/backend_format_raw.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ struct state_backend_format_raw {
>         struct device_d *dev;
>  };
>
> -struct backend_raw_header {
> +struct __attribute__((__packed__)) backend_raw_header {
>         uint32_t magic;
>         uint16_t reserved;
>         uint16_t data_len;
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-02  7:54 Stefan Lengfeld
2016-11-02  7:54 ` [PATCH upstream 2/4] state: fix indentation Stefan Lengfeld
2016-11-02  7:54 ` [PATCH upstream 3/4] state: fix state is not saved when string variable is changed Stefan Lengfeld
2016-11-02  7:54 ` [PATCH upstream 4/4] docs: state: make string variable type clearer Stefan Lengfeld
2016-11-02 14:17 ` Andrey Smirnov [this message]
2016-11-03  6:21 ` [PATCH upstream 1/4] state: use packet attribute for on storage structs Sascha Hauer
2016-11-03  8:38   ` Stefan Lengfeld

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