[Xen-devel] [PATCH 01/24] arm: initial Xen support

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Wed Aug 1 06:42:37 EDT 2012


> > > +struct pvclock_wall_clock {
> > > +	u32   version;
> > > +	u32   sec;
> > > +	u32   nsec;
> > > +} __attribute__((__packed__));
> > 
> > That is weird. It is 4+4+4 = 12 bytes? Don't you want it to be 16 bytes?
> 
> I agree that 16 bytes would be a better choice, but it needs to match
> the struct in Xen that is defined as follow:
> 
>     uint32_t wc_version;      /* Version counter: see vcpu_time_info_t. */
>     uint32_t wc_sec;          /* Secs  00:00:00 UTC, Jan 1, 1970.  */
>     uint32_t wc_nsec;         /* Nsecs 00:00:00 UTC, Jan 1, 1970.  */

Would it make sense to add some paddigin then at least? In both
cases? Or is it too late for this?



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