On 05/15/2017 07:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Hi Georgi,

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Georgi Djakov [off-list ref] wrote:

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--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/interconnect/qcom/interconnect_msm8916.c

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+struct qcom_interconnect_node {
+       struct interconnect_node node;
+       unsigned int id;

4 byte gap due to alignment rules on 64-bit.

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+       unsigned char *name;
+       struct interconnect_node *links[8];
+       int num_links;
+       int port;
+       int buswidth;

4 byte gap due to alignment rules.

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+       u64 ib;
+       u64 ab;
+       u64 rate;
+};

You can avoid the gaps by putting members of the same size and alignment
together.

Thanks Geert, i will rearrange this to reduce the padding bytes!

BR,
Georgi