Re: [RFC PATCH v4 5/8] x86/mm: Introduce Remote Action Request

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-06-20 at 02:01 +0300, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > 
> > > +/*
> > > + * Reduce contention for the RAR payloads by having a small number
> > > of
> > > + * CPUs share a RAR payload entry, instead of a free for all with
> > > all CPUs.
> > > + */
> > > +struct rar_lock {
> > > +	union {
> > > +		raw_spinlock_t lock;
> > > +		char __padding[SMP_CACHE_BYTES];
> > > +	};
> > > +};
> > 
> > I think you can lose the __padding and instead have 
> > ____cacheline_aligned (and then you won't need union).
> > 
> I tried that initially, but the compiler was unhappy
> to have __cacheline_aligned in the definition of a
> struct.

____cacheline_aligned_in_smp, a.k.a. ____cacheline_aligned, should work in a
struct or "on" a struct.  There are multiple instances of both throughout the
kernel.