On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 03:17:44PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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I'd rather have the time size_t or __u64 to avoid implicit padding.

Sure, it can be a u64.  I wanted to avoid the suggestion that the frame
should be that large, but 32 bits already allows it to be crazy large
anyway, so I don't think making it 32-bit helps.

Actually, there is still implicit padding even with u64, since the total
size is 16 bytes + sizeof(extra_context.size).

Since u64 is much bigger then we'd ever want, and to avoid introducing
new bugs, do you object to keeping size as u32 and adding explicit
padding instead?

Cheers
---Dave