unaligned structures coming in off the wire
gcc on arm processors generates very odd code with pragma pack specified -
although it does pack the structures in some sense - it does not allow you
to access unaligned elements in nested structures at the right offset as other
architectures do. Oddly enough though, specifying the structures as packed
the long way - one by one with the packed attribute does work. Rather than
fighting over whether this is a gcc bug or some obscure side effect
of pragma pack, it is easier to do what most (all but 96 other places in
the kernel) do - and replace pragma pack with dozens of attribute(packed)
structure qualifiers. Much more verbose ... but at least it works.
Signed-off-by: David Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> CG: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Steve French