Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

[mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git] / net / netfilter / nf_conntrack_core.c

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index b0f2e8e6508472334bdec348ef2b5dffaa62a1bf..3d621b8d7b8a7ba6318ac1359e1efa795c63a479 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -181,7 +181,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_htable_size);
 unsigned int nf_conntrack_max __read_mostly;
 seqcount_t nf_conntrack_generation __read_mostly;
 
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
+/* nf_conn must be 8 bytes aligned, as the 3 LSB bits are used
+ * for the nfctinfo. We cheat by (ab)using the PER CPU cache line
+ * alignment to enforce this.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct nf_conn, nf_conntrack_untracked);
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(nf_conntrack_untracked);
 
 static unsigned int nf_conntrack_hash_rnd __read_mostly;