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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:56:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ARM network trouble after recent mbuf changes
Message-ID:  <CC710D69-1903-4405-B4B5-55DD9D171D25@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130827164055.4a757a13@bender>
References:  <1377550636.1111.156.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <521BC472.7040804@freebsd.org> <521BD531.4090104@sbcglobal.net> <521C4CD9.4050308@freebsd.org> <20130827102810.37e2dfc7@bender> <DD3D1045-535F-4593-A3B4-E33CFECF0818@bsdimp.com> <20130827164055.4a757a13@bender>

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On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:26:03 -0600
> Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 27, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:13 +0200
>>> Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Please try the patch below to confirm.  If it fixes your problem
>>>> for now I'm going to commit as an immediate fix while searching
>>>> for a better long term stable solution.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried this with a CTASSERT to check if struct m_hdr is the correct
>>> length. In this test the size is incorrect. It appears __ILP32__ is
>>> not defined on ARM.
>>> 
>>> I have tested a fix suggested by Hans Petter Selasky where we mark
>>> m_hdr with __aligned(8). With this change I can netboot a
>>> PandaBoard.
>> 
>> Isn't that a bug with our arm compiler then?
> 
> No, on ARM EABI the definition of the size of a struct is to be the
> smallest multiple of its alignment. As we are increasing the alignment
> to 8-byte and the struct without this alignment is not a multiple of
> 8-bytes adding this alignment will pad to struct to use the unused 4
> bytes between this and the next struct.

Wrong bug :)

Is it not a bug that __ILP32__ is undefined?

Warner

> Andrew
>> 
>> Warner
>> 
>> 
> 




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