Re: [PATCH v5 03/12] Add async PF initialization to PV guest.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:08:06AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> 
> > > The guest will have to align this on a 64 byte boundary, should this
> > > be marked __aligned(64) here?
> > >
> > I do __aligned(64) when I declare variable of that type:
> >
> > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_vcpu_pv_apf_data, apf_reason) __aligned(64);
> 
> 64 byte boundary: You mean cacheline aligned? We have a special define for
> that.
> 
> DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED
IIRC I tried to use it and it does different alignment on 64/32 bit. The
alignment here is part of guest/host interface so it should be the same
on both.

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			Gleb.
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