Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Remove __aligned attribute on zynqmp_dma_desc_ll

[Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:11:22AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:06 AM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Clang warns:
> >
> > drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c:166:4: warning: attribute 'aligned' is
> > ignored, place it after "struct" to apply attribute to type declaration
> > [-Wignored-attributes]
> > }; __aligned(64)
> >    ^
> > ./include/linux/compiler_types.h:200:38: note: expanded from macro
> > '__aligned'
> > #define __aligned(x)            __attribute__((aligned(x)))
> >                                                ^
> > 1 warning generated.
> >
> > As Nick pointed out in the previous version of this patch, the author
> > likely intended for this struct to be 8-byte (64-bit) aligned, not
> > 64-byte, which is the default. Remove the hanging __aligned attribute.
> 
> Here was the v1 discussion, for reference.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/12/4
> 
> Thanks for sending the update Nathan.  One thing I recommend doing is
> including the version in the [PATCH] subject line, ie. [PATCH v2].
> `git format-patch` can do this automatically for you, ex.
> $ git format-patch -v2 HEAD~
> 
> >
> > Fixes: b0cc417c1637 ("dmaengine: Add Xilinx zynqmp dma engine driver support")
> > Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> Then below this line, you can include the notes about v1 -> v2
> changes. (interdiff notes to the reviewers that get discarded from the
> commit message).  I think I've seen you use the versioning before, so
> sorry if I'm restating something you already know.
> 

No, that's fine, I completely forgot all the versioning for this patch
as I was rushing, sorry about that!

> Thanks for the patch.
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> 

Thanks for the review!
Nathan

> >  drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c b/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> > index c74a88b65039..73de6a6179fc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/xilinx/zynqmp_dma.c
> > @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ struct zynqmp_dma_desc_ll {
> >         u32 ctrl;
> >         u64 nxtdscraddr;
> >         u64 rsvd;
> > -}; __aligned(64)
> > +};
> >
> >  /**
> >   * struct zynqmp_dma_desc_sw - Per Transaction structure
> > --
> > 2.19.1
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers