Building an allmodconfig ARM kernel, I get multiple such
warnings because of a spinlock contained in packed structure
in the 3w-xxxx driver:

../drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c: In function 'tw_chrdev_ioctl':
../drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c:1001:68: warning: mis-aligned access used for 
structure member [-fstrict-volatile-bitfields]
    timeout = wait_event_timeout(tw_dev->ioctl_wqueue, 
tw_dev->chrdev_request_id == TW_IOCTL_CHRDEV_FREE, timeout);
                                                                    ^
../drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.c:1001:68: note: when a volatile object spans multiple 
type-sized locations, the compiler must choose between using a single 
mis-aligned access to preserve the volatility, or using multiple aligned 
accesses to avoid runtime faults; this code may fail at runtime if the hardware 
does not allow this access

The same bug apparently was present in 3w-sas and 3w-9xxx, but has been
fixed in the past. This patch uses the same fix by moving the pragma
in front of the TW_Device_Extension definition, so it only covers
hardware structures.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Cc: Adam Radford <linuxr...@lsi.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h b/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h
index 49dcf03..29b0b84e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.h
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ typedef struct TAG_TW_Passthru
        unsigned char padding[12];
 } TW_Passthru;
 
+#pragma pack()
+
 typedef struct TAG_TW_Device_Extension {
        u32                     base_addr;
        unsigned long           *alignment_virtual_address[TW_Q_LENGTH];
@@ -430,6 +432,4 @@ typedef struct TAG_TW_Device_Extension {
        wait_queue_head_t       ioctl_wqueue;
 } TW_Device_Extension;
 
-#pragma pack()
-
 #endif /* _3W_XXXX_H */

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