From 147ad605dc12c515c97136899ccb5c70e6c674e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:23:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] init: use type alignment for kernel parameters Specify type alignment for kernel parameters instead of sizeof(long). The alignment attribute is used to prevent gcc from increasing the alignment of objects with static extent as an optimisation, something which would mess up the __setup array stride. Using __alignof__(struct obs_kernel_param) rather than sizeof(long) is preferred since it better indicates why it is there and doesn't break should the type size or alignment change. Note that on m68k the alignment of struct obs_kernel_param is actually two and that adding a 1- or 2-byte field to the 12-byte struct would cause a breakage with the current 4-byte alignment. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103175711.10731-1-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- include/linux/init.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h index 7b53cb3..e668832 100644 --- a/include/linux/init.h +++ b/include/linux/init.h @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ struct obs_kernel_param { __aligned(1) = str; \ static struct obs_kernel_param __setup_##unique_id \ __used __section(".init.setup") \ - __attribute__((aligned((sizeof(long))))) \ + __aligned(__alignof__(struct obs_kernel_param)) \ = { __setup_str_##unique_id, fn, early } #define __setup(str, fn) \ -- 2.7.4