bcachefs: omit alignment attribute on big endian struct bkey

This is needed for building Rust bindings on big endian architectures
like s390x. Currently this is only done in userspace, but it might
happen in-kernel in the future. When creating a Rust binding for struct
bkey, the "packed" attribute is needed to get a type with the correct
member offsets in the big endian case. However, rustc does not allow
types to have both a "packed" and "align" attribute. Thus, in order to
get a Rust type compatible with the C type, we must omit the "aligned"
attribute in C.

This does not affect the struct's size or member offsets, only its
toplevel alignment, which should be an acceptable impact.

The little endian version can have the "align" attribute because the
"packed" attr is redundant, and rust-bindgen will omit the "packed" attr
when an "align" attr is present and it can do so without changing a
type's layout

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bertschinger <tahbertschinger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/bcachefs_format.h b/fs/bcachefs/bcachefs_format.h
index 1bb24aa73528..8aa5241b5517 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/bcachefs_format.h
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/bcachefs_format.h
@@ -222,7 +222,36 @@ struct bkey {
 
 	__u8		pad[1];
 #endif
-} __packed __aligned(8);
+} __packed
+#if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__
+/*
+ * The big-endian version of bkey can't be compiled by rustc with the "aligned"
+ * attr since it doesn't allow types to have both "packed" and "aligned" attrs.
+ * So for Rust compatibility, don't include this. It can be included in the LE
+ * version because the "packed" attr is redundant in that case.
+ *
+ * History: (quoting Kent)
+ *
+ * Specifically, when i was designing bkey, I wanted the header to be no
+ * bigger than necessary so that bkey_packed could use the rest. That means that
+ * decently offten extent keys will fit into only 8 bytes, instead of spilling over
+ * to 16.
+ *
+ * But packed_bkey treats the part after the header - the packed section -
+ * as a single multi word, variable length integer. And bkey, the unpacked
+ * version, is just a special case version of a bkey_packed; all the packed
+ * bkey code will work on keys in any packed format, the in-memory
+ * representation of an unpacked key also is just one type of packed key...
+ *
+ * So that constrains the key part of a bkig endian bkey to start right
+ * after the header.
+ *
+ * If we ever do a bkey_v2 and need to expand the hedaer by another byte for
+ * some reason - that will clean up this wart.
+ */
+__aligned(8)
+#endif
+;
 
 struct bkey_packed {
 	__u64		_data[0];