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u64 alignment behaves differently depending on the architecture and so <uapi/linux/types.h> offers __aligned_u64 to achieve consistent behavior in kernel<->userspace ABIs. There are structs in <uapi/linux/vfio.h> that can trivially be updated to __aligned_u64 because the struct sizes are multiples of 8 bytes. There is no change in memory layout on any CPU architecture and therefore this change is safe. The commits that follow this one handle the trickier cases where explanation about ABI breakage is necessary. Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230918205617.1478722-2-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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.