Re: 2.6.4-mm1

[Chris Friesen]

Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:43:54PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
>
> > struct dm_ioctl {			0
> >        uint32_t version[3];		
> >        uint32_t data_size;  		4
> >
> >        uint32_t data_start;
> >
> >        uint32_t target_count;
> >        int32_t open_count;
> >        uint32_t flags;		8
> >        uint32_t event_nr;
> >        uint32_t padding;		10 ***
>
>
> 	Here's probably the problem.  Many 64bit arches align 64bit
> numbers on a 64bit boundary.  So it is adding 2 more words of padding to
> start the u64 at offset 12.

But wouldn't this be applied across the board and therefore still work? 
 Or is it defined as "packed" somewhere?

Chris


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