[PATCH] powerpc: fix the allyesconfig build

[Yunsheng Lin]

On 2020/11/29 3:36, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 16:20:54 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:56:42 -0800 Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the offending structure in hisilicon? I'd rather have a look
>>> packing structs with pointers in 'em sounds questionable.
>>>
>>> I only see these two:
>>>
>>> $ git grep packed drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hnae.h:struct __packed hnae_desc {
>>> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h:struct __packed hns3_desc {  
>>
>> struct hclge_dbg_reg_type_info which is 28 bytes long due to the
>> included struct struct hclge_dbg_reg_common_msg (which is 12 bytes
>> long).  They are surrounded by #pragma pack(1)/pack().
>>
>> This forces the 2 pointers in each second array element of
>> hclge_dbg_reg_info[] to be 4 byte aligned (where pointers are 8 bytes
>> long on PPC64).
> 
> Ah! Thanks, I don't see a reason for these to be packed. 
> Looks  like an accident, there is no reason to pack anything 
> past struct hclge_dbg_reg_common_msg AFAICT.
> 
> Huawei folks, would you mind sending a fix if the analysis is correct?

Yes, will send a patch to fix that. Thanks for the analysis.

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