core: Use unnatural alignment of struct embedded in another to infer __packed__
Since we don't have something like DW_AT_alignment for
__attribute__((__packed__)), we need to use whatever hints that are
there in the alignments to figure out if a naturally packed struct has
the __attribute__((packed)) in the original sources, because that is
needed to waiver its natural alignment requisites.
For instance,
/* Used at: btrfs.c */
/* <1e7b> /home/acme/git/pahole/btrfs.c:199 */
struct btrfs_block_group_cache {
struct btrfs_key key; /* 0 17 */
struct btrfs_block_group_item item; /* 17 24 */
/* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */
struct btrfs_fs_info * fs_info; /* 48 8 */
struct inode * inode; /* 56 8 */
In the original source code, btrfs_block_group_item is marked
__packed__, and being so, even seemingly unnecessarily, makes it, when
embedded in another struct, like the above, forfeit its natural
alingment, that would be 8 bytes, and instead appear right at the 17th
byte offset...
struct btrfs_block_group_item {
__le64 used; /* 0 8 */
__le64 chunk_objectid; /* 8 8 */
__le64 flags; /* 16 8 */
/* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
So we need to, seeing its use at a unnatural offset, go backwards to the
btrfs_block_group_item pahole internal data structure, 'struct type' and
mark is_packed field as 'true', despite it not looking like a packed
struct.
Same thing with:
struct ieee80211_mcs_info {
u8 rx_mask[10]; /* 0 10 */
__le16 rx_highest; /* 10 2 */
u8 tx_params; /* 12 1 */
u8 reserved[3]; /* 13 3 */
/* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */
};
That is naturally aligned and as 16 bytes, a power of two, then when it appears at the end of:
$ pahole -IC ieee80211_sta_ht_cap vht.o
/* Used at: vht.c */
/* <31ea> /home/acme/git/pahole/vht.c:1769 */
struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap {
u16 cap; /* 0 2 */
bool ht_supported; /* 2 1 */
u8 ampdu_factor; /* 3 1 */
u8 ampdu_density; /* 4 1 */
/* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */
struct ieee80211_mcs_info mcs; /* 6 16 */
/* size: 22, cachelines: 1, members: 5 */
/* sum members: 21, holes: 1, sum holes: 1 */
/* last cacheline: 22 bytes */
};
$
We get that one byte hole if ieee80211_mcs_info isn't marked __packed__, as soon as we mark it:
$ pahole -IC ieee80211_sta_ht_cap vht.o
/* Used at: vht.c */
/* <31ea> /home/acme/git/pahole/vht.c:1769 */
struct ieee80211_sta_ht_cap {
u16 cap; /* 0 2 */
bool ht_supported; /* 2 1 */
u8 ampdu_factor; /* 3 1 */
u8 ampdu_density; /* 4 1 */
struct ieee80211_mcs_info mcs; /* 5 16 */
/* size: 22, cachelines: 1, members: 5 */
/* padding: 1 */
/* last cacheline: 22 bytes */
};
[acme@quaco pahole]$
It works, so __packed__ in this case just says: trow away the natural
alignment, make it 1 in whatever container structs.
So, before emitting the types for some struct, we go back looking at
each of its members and checking for such unnatural offsets, marking the
types as __packed__. Now:
$ pfunct --compile /home/acme/git/build/v5.1-rc4+/net/mac80211/vht.o | grep "^struct ieee80211_mcs_info" -A8
struct ieee80211_mcs_info {
u8 rx_mask[10]; /* 0 10 */
__le16 rx_highest; /* 10 2 */
u8 tx_params; /* 12 1 */
u8 reserved[3]; /* 13 3 */
/* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
$
$ pfunct --compile /home/acme/git/build/v5.1-rc4+/fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.o | grep "^struct btrfs_block_group_item" -A7
struct btrfs_block_group_item {
__le64 used; /* 0 8 */
__le64 chunk_objectid; /* 8 8 */
__le64 flags; /* 16 8 */
/* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
} __attribute__((__packed__));
$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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