[PATCH 0/6] Reduce scope address-of-packed-member warning

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 3:24 PM David Marchand
<david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > The warning for address-of-packed-member was being disabled globally in
> > DPDK.  While for drivers which need to access hardware-defined
> > data-structures the use of packed may make sense, for normal libs and
> > applications the use of packed data should be generally avoided.
> >
> > This patchset initially applies some fixes for cases where we are
> > unnecessarily causing the warning to trigger. Thereafter the 6th patch
> > removes the global enabling of the warning and replaces it with more
> > selective disabling for drivers and for a couple of other components
> > which have not yet been fixed.
> >
> > Bruce Richardson (6):
> >   ip_frag: remove use of unaligned variable
> >   efd: remove unnecessary packed attributes
> >   bus/ifpga: remove packed attribute
> >   pipeline: remove packed attribute
> >   net: add smaller IPv4 cksum function for simple cases
> >   build: limit scope of packed member warning disabling
> >
> >  app/test-eventdev/test_pipeline_common.c | 25 +-----------
> >  app/test-pmd/icmpecho.c                  | 23 +----------
> >  app/test-pmd/txonly.c                    | 22 +----------
> >  app/test/packet_burst_generator.c        | 49 +-----------------------
> >  app/test/test_reassembly_perf.c          | 29 +-------------
> >  config/meson.build                       |  1 -
> >  drivers/bus/ifpga/bus_ifpga_driver.h     |  2 +-
> >  drivers/meson.build                      |  9 +++--
> >  examples/ipsec-secgw/meson.build         |  6 +++
> >  lib/efd/rte_efd.c                        |  4 +-
> >  lib/ip_frag/rte_ipv4_reassembly.c        |  4 +-
> >  lib/net/rte_ip.h                         | 33 ++++++++++++++++
> >  lib/pipeline/rte_table_action.c          |  2 +-
> >  lib/vhost/meson.build                    |  5 ++-
> >  14 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
>
> Recheck-request: rebase=main,iol-unit-amd64-testing,iol-unit-arm64-testing

Unfortunately, there is a small conflict and the CI can't retest this series.
Bruce, can you send a v2 please?


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David Marchand