Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v17 02/10] ACPI: add some GHES structures and macros definition

[gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>]

On 2019/6/24 19:16, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>>> On 2019/6/20 20:10, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
>>>>>> + */
>>>>>> +struct AcpiGenericErrorStatus {
>>>>>> +    /* It is a bitmask composed of ACPI_GEBS_xxx macros */
>>>>>> +    uint32_t block_status;
>>>>>> +    uint32_t raw_data_offset;
>>>>>> +    uint32_t raw_data_length;
>>>>>> +    uint32_t data_length;
>>>>>> +    uint32_t error_severity;
>>>>>> +} QEMU_PACKED;
>>>>>> +typedef struct AcpiGenericErrorStatus AcpiGenericErrorStatus;    
>>>>> there shouldn't be packed structures,
>>>>> is it a leftover from previous version?    
>>>> I remember some people suggest to add QEMU_PACKED before, anyway I will remove it in my next version patch.  
>>> Question is why it's  there and where it is used?  
>> sorry, it is my carelessness. it should be packed structures.
>>
>> I used this structures to get its actual total size and member offset in [PATCH v17 10/10].
>> If it is not packed structures, the total size and member offset may be not right.
> I'd suggest to drop these typedefs and use a macro with size for that purpose,
> Also it might be good to make it local to the file that would use it.
so you mean we also use macro for the  member offset  in the structures?  such as the offset of data_length,
may be there is many hardcode.

> 
>>> BTW:
>>> series doesn't apply to master anymore.