Re: [RFC patch] spindep: add cross cache lines checking

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:

> > I think the check should be (__alignof__(lock) < 
> > __alignof__(rwlock_t)), otherwise it will still pass when 
> > you have structure with attribute((packed,aligned(2)))
> 
> reasonable!
> 
> >> 1, it is alignof bug for default gcc on my fc15 and Ubuntu 11.10 etc?
> >>
> >> struct sub {
> >>         int  raw_lock;
> >>         char a;
> >> };
> >> struct foo {
> >>         struct sub z;
> >>         int slk;
> >>         char y;
> >> }__attribute__((packed));
> >>
> >> struct foo f1;
> >>
> >> __alignof__(f1.z.raw_lock) is 4, but its address actually can align on
> >> one byte. 
> > 
> > That looks like correct behavior, because the alignment of 
> > raw_lock inside of struct sub is still 4. But it does mean 
> > that there can be cases where the compile-time check is not 
> > sufficient, so we might want the run-time check as well, at 
> > least under some config option.
> 
> what's your opinion of this, Ingo?

Dunno. How many real bugs have you found via this patch?

Thanks,

	Ingo