[PATCH] KEYS: user: Align the payload buffer

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Feb 20 20:50:31 UTC 2019


On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, David Howells wrote:

> David Laight <David.Laight at ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> 
> > I'd make the 'datalen' field 'unsigned int' at the same time.
> > It will use some of the hole you've made and generate better
> > code on most arches.
> 
> Most arches?  I though most, if not all, arches had a load-word instruction.
> 
> Do you want to send me a patch for that?  I'd rather not alter this patch at
> this point.  I can pass the additional patch to James for the next merge
> window.

Should this first one go into -rc?


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James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>



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