From: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" It is better that the existing offsetof() is used for VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(). This discussion is the following: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.3/0584.html Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi Acked-by: Simon Horman Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/kexec.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/kexec.h~vmcoreinfo-use-the-existing-offsetof-for-vmcoreinfo_offset include/linux/kexec.h --- a/include/linux/kexec.h~vmcoreinfo-use-the-existing-offsetof-for-vmcoreinfo_offset +++ a/include/linux/kexec.h @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ unsigned long paddr_vmcoreinfo_note(void (unsigned long)sizeof(struct name)) #define VMCOREINFO_OFFSET(name, field) \ vmcoreinfo_append_str("OFFSET(%s.%s)=%lu\n", #name, #field, \ - (unsigned long)&(((struct name *)0)->field)) + (unsigned long)offsetof(struct name, field)) #define VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(name, value) \ vmcoreinfo_append_str("LENGTH(%s)=%lu\n", #name, (unsigned long)value) #define VMCOREINFO_NUMBER(name) \ _