RE: [net-next v5 01/15] virtchnl: Extend AVF ops

["Brady, Alan" <alan.brady@intel.com>]

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> Subject: RE: [net-next v5 01/15] virtchnl: Extend AVF ops
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> > Subject: Re: [net-next v5 01/15] virtchnl: Extend AVF ops
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:32:52 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> > > +struct virtchnl_rss_hash {
> > > +	u64 hash;
> > > +	u16 vport_id;
> > > +};
> > > +
> > > +VIRTCHNL_CHECK_STRUCT_LEN(16, virtchnl_rss_hash);
> >
> > I've added 32bit builds to my local setup since v4 was posted - looks
> > like there's a number of errors here. You can't assume u64 forces a
> > 64bit alignment. Best to specify the padding explicitly.
> >
> > FWIW these are the errors I got but there may be more:
> >
> 
> It seems like these are triggering on old messages too, curious why this wasn't
> caught sooner.  Will fix, thanks.
> 
> -Alan

I managed to get a 32-bit build environment setup and found that we do indeed have alignment issues there on 32 bit systems for some of the new ops we added with the series.  However, I think I'm still missing something as it looks like you have errors triggering on much more than I found and I'm suspecting there might be a compile option I'm missing or perhaps my GCC version is older than yours.  E.g., I found issues in virtchnl_txq_info_v2, virtchnl_rxq_info_v2, virtchnl_config_rx_queues, and virtchnl_rss_hash.  It appears you have compile issues in virtchnl_get_capabilities (among others) however which did not trigger on mine.  Manual inspection indicates that it _should_ be triggering a failure and that your setup is more correct than mine.  I'm guessing some extra padding is getting included in some places and causing a false positive on the other alignment issues.  Are there any hints you can provide me that might help me more accurately reproduce this?

-Alan