[PATCH] Remove PACKED macro and use __attribute__((packed)) directly

Zhang Yanfei zhangyanfei at cn.fujitsu.com
Wed Oct 16 03:14:11 EDT 2013


Hello simon,

On 10/16/2013 03:12 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:21:21PM +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
>> People are not always aware of PACKED macro and tend to
>> __attribute__((packed)) more directly. So let's remove PACKED to unify
>> things.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks, this looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> 
> I suggest re-posting with Andre Morton CCed to see
> if he will pick it up.

You should take this because this is a change in kexec-tools,
not in kernel source......:)

> 
>> ---
>>  include/x86/x86-linux.h | 6 ++----
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/x86/x86-linux.h b/include/x86/x86-linux.h
>> index 0949dc2..c41e5f2 100644
>> --- a/include/x86/x86-linux.h
>> +++ b/include/x86/x86-linux.h
>> @@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
>>  
>>  #ifndef ASSEMBLY
>>  
>> -#define PACKED __attribute__((packed))
>> -
>>  #ifndef E820_RAM
>>  struct e820entry {
>>  	uint64_t addr;	/* start of memory segment */
>> @@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ struct e820entry {
>>  #define E820_RESERVED	2
>>  #define E820_ACPI	3 /* usable as RAM once ACPI tables have been read */
>>  #define E820_NVS	4
>> -} PACKED;
>> +} __attribute__((packed));
>>  #endif
>>  
>>  /* FIXME expand on drive_info_)struct... */
>> @@ -255,7 +253,7 @@ struct x86_linux_header {
>>  	uint64_t pref_address;			/* 0x258 */
>>  	uint32_t init_size;			/* 0x260 */
>>  	uint32_t handover_offset;		/* 0x264 */
>> -} PACKED;
>> +} __attribute__((packed));
>>  
>>  #endif /* ASSEMBLY */
>>  
>> -- 
>> 1.8.3.1
>>
>>
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> 


-- 
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei



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