[parisc-linux] misaligned data
Grant Grundler
grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com
Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:01:04 -0700 (MST)
Two more tidbits on the misaligned data problem in 2.5.53:
o using -g instead of -O2 compiles just fine
o The generating the warning is the "tv_add" call in sctp_pack_cookie():
...
/* Set an expiration time for the cookie. */
do_gettimeofday(&cookie->c.expiration);
tv_add(&asoc->cookie_life, &cookie->c.expiration);
...
But I'm under the impression the do_gettimeofday() above would puke when
trying to access the same misaligned timeval_t as well. tv_add() catches
the problem since it is a macro and code gets generated to directly
reference the struct instead of an anonymous address.
The asm output is:
...
ldw 5144(%r8),%r19
ldw 8(%r6),%r20
add,l %r20,%r19,%r20
ldd 5136(%r8),%r21
ldd 52(%r3),%r19 # line 2347 is misaligned.
extrd,s %r20,63,32,%r20
add,l %r19,%r21,%r25
ldil L'999999,%r19
cmpb,*>= %r19,%r20,.L1873
copy %r4,%r27
ldil L'-1000000,%r19
ldo 1(%r25),%r25
ldo R'-1000000(%r19),%r19
add,l %r20,%r19,%r20
.L1873:
std %r25,52(%r3) # also misaligned
Based on the math, looks like %r25 has the "seconds" field and %r19
the microseconds.
Oh, only one definition and usage of tv_add().
The offending field is "&cookie->c.expiration".
cookie is type "sctp_signed_cookie_t". (include/net/sctp/structs.h)
/* The format of our cookie that we send to our peer. */
typedef struct sctp_signed_cookie {
__u8 signature[SCTP_SECRET_SIZE];
sctp_cookie_t c;
} sctp_signed_cookie_t;
struct sctp_cookie mostly uses __u32 except for "struct timeval expiration".
"struct timeval" is declared in include/linux/time.h.
Not sure if it's safe to just pad "struct sctp_cookie" or if something
else needs to be done.
If this isn't a parisc toolchain bug, then other arches (eg ia64) will need
a fix as well.
cheers,
grant