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| author | Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> | 2016-04-22 17:31:24 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-04-23 20:13:25 -0400 |
| commit | 80df554275c21edca22ece02448bdb378c2ee9f1 (patch) | |
| tree | ea4a3f342c07929025c193b2b67e206e1008afa9 /kernel/taskstats.c | |
| parent | de95c4a46a6e608444ccaf541087594553c7df11 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-80df554275c21edca22ece02448bdb378c2ee9f1.tar.gz lwn-80df554275c21edca22ece02448bdb378c2ee9f1.zip | |
taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit
Goal of this patch is to use the new libnl API to align netlink attribute
when needed.
The layout of the netlink message will be a bit different after the patch,
because the padattr (TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS) will be inside the nested
attribute instead of before it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/taskstats.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/taskstats.c | 37 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c index 21f82c29c914..b3f05ee20d18 100644 --- a/kernel/taskstats.c +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c @@ -357,10 +357,6 @@ static int parse(struct nlattr *na, struct cpumask *mask) return ret; } -#if defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) -#define TASKSTATS_NEEDS_PADDING 1 -#endif - static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid) { struct nlattr *na, *ret; @@ -370,29 +366,6 @@ static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid) ? TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID : TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID; - /* - * The taskstats structure is internally aligned on 8 byte - * boundaries but the layout of the aggregrate reply, with - * two NLA headers and the pid (each 4 bytes), actually - * force the entire structure to be unaligned. This causes - * the kernel to issue unaligned access warnings on some - * architectures like ia64. Unfortunately, some software out there - * doesn't properly unroll the NLA packet and assumes that the start - * of the taskstats structure will always be 20 bytes from the start - * of the netlink payload. Aligning the start of the taskstats - * structure breaks this software, which we don't want. So, for now - * the alignment only happens on architectures that require it - * and those users will have to update to fixed versions of those - * packages. Space is reserved in the packet only when needed. - * This ifdef should be removed in several years e.g. 2012 once - * we can be confident that fixed versions are installed on most - * systems. We add the padding before the aggregate since the - * aggregate is already a defined type. - */ -#ifdef TASKSTATS_NEEDS_PADDING - if (nla_put(skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL, 0, NULL) < 0) - goto err; -#endif na = nla_nest_start(skb, aggr); if (!na) goto err; @@ -401,7 +374,8 @@ static struct taskstats *mk_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, u32 pid) nla_nest_cancel(skb, na); goto err; } - ret = nla_reserve(skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS, sizeof(struct taskstats)); + ret = nla_reserve_64bit(skb, TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS, + sizeof(struct taskstats), TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL); if (!ret) { nla_nest_cancel(skb, na); goto err; @@ -500,10 +474,9 @@ static size_t taskstats_packet_size(void) size_t size; size = nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) + - nla_total_size(sizeof(struct taskstats)) + nla_total_size(0); -#ifdef TASKSTATS_NEEDS_PADDING - size += nla_total_size(0); /* Padding for alignment */ -#endif + nla_total_size_64bit(sizeof(struct taskstats)) + + nla_total_size(0); + return size; } |