Aurelien DARRAGON d655ed5f14 BUG/MAJOR: stats-file: ensure shm_stats_file_object struct mapping consistency (2nd attempt)
This is a second attempt at fixing issues on 32bits systems which would
trigger the following BUG_ON() statement:

 FATAL: bug condition "sizeof(struct shm_stats_file_object) != 544" matched at src/stats-file.c:825 shm_stats_file_object struct size changed, is is part of the exported API: ensure all precautions were taken (ie: shm_stats_file version change) before adjusting this

This is a drop-in replacement for d30b88a6c + 4693ee0ff, as suggested by
Willy.

Indeed, on supported platforms unsigned int can be assumed to be 4 bytes
long, and long can be assumed to be 8 bytes long. As such, the previous
attempt was overkill and added unecessary maintenance complexity which
could result in bugs if not used properly. Moreover, it would only
partially solve the issue, since on little endian vs big endian
architectures, the provisioned memory areas (originating from the same
shm stats file) could be read differently by the host.

Instead we fix the aligments issues, and this alone helps to ensure
struct memory consistency on 64 vs 32bits platforms. It was tested
on both i386 and i586.

last_change and last_sess counters are now stored as unsigned int, as
it helped to fix the alignment issues and they were found to be used
as 32bits integers anyway.

Thanks to Willy for problem analysis and the patch proposal.

No backport needed.
2025-10-24 09:35:38 +02:00
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