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Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:12:49 +0000
From:   Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] gpiolib: add new ioctl() for monitoring changes
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 02:05:19PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> wt., 10 gru 2019 o 18:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> >
> > > On a different note: why would endianness be an issue here? 32-bit
> > > variables with 64-bit alignment should still be in the same place in
> > > memory, right?
> >
> > With explicit padding, yes.
> >
> > > Any reason not to use __packed for this structure and not deal with
> > > this whole compat mess?
> >
> > Have been suggested that explicit padding is better approach.
> > (See my answer to Kent)
> >
> > > I also noticed that my change will only allow user-space to read one
> > > event at a time which seems to be a regression with regard to the
> > > current implementation. I probably need to address this too.
> >
> > Yes, but we have to have ABI v2 in place.
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I was playing with some ideas for the new ABI and noticed that on
> 64-bit architecture the size of struct gpiochip_info is reported to be
> 68 bytes, not 72 as I would expect. Is implicit alignment padding not
> applied to a struct if there's a non-64bit-aligned 32-bit field at the
> end of it? Is there something I'm missing here?
> 

Struct alignment is based on the size of the largest element.
The largest element of struct gpiopchip_info is a __u32, so the struct
gets 32-bit alignment, even on 64-bit.

The structs with the problems all contain a __u64, and so get padded out
to a 64-bit boundary.

Cheers,
Kent.