problem with -mstructure-size-boundary=8 and network stack

[Mick Davis]

Hi

You have to adjust the frames between your driver and the stack so that 
the bytes after the ethernet header are word aligned.

The size of the ethernet header is better defined by ETHER_HDR_LEN, 
there could be alignment bytes included when using sizeof( struct 
ether_header ) that won't exist in the real data.

Check a few of the existing network drivers, there are examples for 
these issues.

We've run RTEMS using both minimum alignments without problem once we 
got our network driver fixed for these.

On 29/04/12 17:02, JIANGJason wrote:
>
> HI all,
> I am working on a porting of RTEMS 4.10.2(tried 4.9.4 also) to a S3C2440/CS8900 based SBC, and with problem to let the network stack to work.
>
> (1) If  -mstructure-size-boundary=8 is used, data abort will be occur at ip_input.c:400 (the problem code is listed below) when there is a IP packet incoming, such as ICMP, or any other. The
>
> ip_input.c:400
> if (IA_SIN(ia)->sin_addr.s_addr == ip->ip_dst.s_addr) goto ours;
>
> (1) If  -mstructure-size-boundary=32 is used, any IP packet out send is in abnormal format. and wireshark told me that the packet it captured are all "Bogus IP header length (0, must be at least 20)".
>
> I am not familiar with the IP stack itself, but it looks can not be easily solved by just change the compiling options. Anyone had the same problem before?
> ______________________
> Best Regards, Jason
>
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Mick Davis
Goanna Technologies Pty Ltd
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