[RFC v1 2/3] interconnect: Add Qualcomm msm8916 interconnect provider driver

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon May 15 09:01:11 PDT 2017


Hi Georgi,

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov at linaro.org> wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/interconnect/qcom/interconnect_msm8916.c

> +struct qcom_interconnect_node {
> +       struct interconnect_node node;
> +       unsigned int id;

4 byte gap due to alignment rules on 64-bit.

> +       unsigned char *name;
> +       struct interconnect_node *links[8];
> +       int num_links;
> +       int port;
> +       int buswidth;

4 byte gap due to alignment rules.

> +       u64 ib;
> +       u64 ab;
> +       u64 rate;
> +};

You can avoid the gaps by putting members of the same size and alignment
together.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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