On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 00:21, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Rabin Vincent wrote: >> In my case it's this writel() in ehci-hub.c that gets chopped into >> strbs: >> >> /* force reset to complete */ >> ehci_writel(ehci, temp & ~(PORT_RWC_BITS | PORT_RESET), >> status_reg); > > Why would that get messed up? The status_reg variable doesn't have any > __atribute__((packed)) associated with it.
The initialization of status_reg is: u32 __iomem *status_reg = &ehci->regs->port_status[(wIndex & 0xff) - 1]; where ehci->regs is a pointer to the packed struct ehci_regs. So, this is the same problem of casting pointers to stricter alignment.