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The ice Tx and Rx queue context are currently stored as arrays of bytes with defined size (ICE_RXQ_CTX_SZ and ICE_TXQ_CTX_SZ). The packed queue context is often passed to other functions as a simple u8 * pointer, which does not allow tracking the size. This makes the queue context API easy to misuse, as you can pass an arbitrary u8 array or pointer. Introduce wrapper typedefs which use a __packed structure that has the proper fixed size for the Tx and Rx context buffers. This enables the compiler to track the size of the value and ensures that passing the wrong buffer size will be detected by the compiler. The existing APIs do not benefit much from this change, however the wrapping structures will be used to simplify the arguments of new packing functions based on the recently introduced pack_fields API. Co-developed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241210-packing-pack-fields-and-ice-implementation-v10-6-ee56a47479ac@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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 reStructuredText 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.