Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] xen/arm: Cleanup use of __attribute__((packed))

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:55 +0000 on 13 Mar (1394700902), Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 08:34 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 12.03.14 at 20:08, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > And standardise on having the statement at the head of the struct/union 
> > > rather
> > > than at the tail.  This is all mechanical shuffling.
> > 
> > Yet none of the attributes seem really necessary here.
> 
> These structs mirror the actual hardware PTE layouts, although it should
> make no difference in practice isn't __packed quite a useful indicator
> for this?

+1.  I think that __packed on things where the actual bit layout is
important is fine, even if it's not strictly necessary.

Cheers,

Tim.

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