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The alignment of a structure is that of its largest member. On
architectures like 32-bit Arm (but not e.g. 32-bit x86) 64-bit integers
will require 64-bit alignment and not its natural word size.
This means that there is no portable way to add 64-bit integers to
siginfo_t on 32-bit architectures without breaking the ABI, because
siginfo_t does not yet (and therefore likely never will) contain 64-bit
fields on 32-bit architectures. Adding a 64-bit integer could change the
alignment of the union after the 3 initial int si_signo, si_errno,
si_code, thus introducing 4 bytes of padding shifting the entire union,
which would break the ABI.
One alternative would be to use the __packed attribute, however, it is
non-standard C. Given siginfo_t has definitions outside the Linux kernel
in various standard libraries that can be compiled with any number of
different compilers (not just those we rely on), using non-standard
attributes on siginfo_t should be avoided to ensure portability.
In the case of the si_perf field, word size is sufficient since there is
no exact requirement on size, given the data it contains is user-defined
via perf_event_attr::sig_data. On 32-bit architectures, any excess bits
of perf_event_attr::sig_data will therefore be truncated when copying
into si_perf.
Since si_perf is intended to disambiguate events (e.g. encoding relevant
information if there are more events of the same type), 32 bits should
provide enough entropy to do so on 32-bit architectures.
For 64-bit architectures, no change is intended.
Fixes:
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| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.