Re: (reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit m

[David S. Miller]

Chris Wedgwood writes:
 > What kind of packing makes a 32-bit value take 8-bytes on any
 > currently supported archicture? The worst-case I can think of is
 > 7-bytes in the case of misaligned by 3 (e.g. __attribute__((packed))
 > struct blah { char foo[3]; long bar }; sort of thing).

If you have this:

struct {
	u32	foo;
	void	*bar;
};

"bar" will be at offset 8 on a 64-bit platforms since it must be
aligned on a 64-byte boundary, so what Jes is saying is that for:

struct {
	dma_addr_t	foo;
	void		*bar;
};

the "dma_addr_t" is already consuming 8 bytes of space on 64-bit
systems.

Later,
David S. Miller
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