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Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 13:12:54 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 201/208] x86/fpu: Clean up xstate feature reservation
On 05/05/2015 10:58 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> struct xregs_state {
> struct fxregs_state i387;
> struct xstate_header header;
> - struct ymmh_struct ymmh;
> - struct lwp_struct lwp;
> - struct bndreg bndreg[4];
> - struct bndcsr bndcsr;
> - /* New processor state extensions will go here. */
> + u8 __reserved[XSTATE_RESERVE];
> } __attribute__ ((packed, aligned (64)));
Just to reiterate. The size of 'XSTATE_RESERVE' is completely unknown
at compile time. It's wrong in the existing kernel, but we should fix
it up instead of mucking with it like this.
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