From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 11:37:56 -0200
> __packed is considered harmful as it potentially generates code that > doesn't perform well and its usage should be avoided as much as > possible. > > This patch drops __packed from all SCTP structures except one, which is > sctp_signed_cookie. In there it's required, as per changelog on > commit 9834a2bb4970 ("[SCTP]: Fix sctp_cookie alignment in the packet."). > > After this patch, no alignment changes neither in x86 or x86_64 and > no exceptions were noticed during testing on both archs. > > Code size for SCTP module also didn't change with this patch. > > Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> > Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> Looks great, thanks so much for following through on this! Applied.