linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:25:00 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org,
	bp@...en8.de, fenghua.yu@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct
 declarations


* Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net> wrote:

> @@ -447,6 +492,14 @@ static void do_extra_xstate_size_checks(
>  		paranoid_xstate_size += xfeature_size(i);
>  	}
>  	XSTATE_WARN_ON(paranoid_xstate_size != xstate_size);
> +	/*
> +	 * Basically, make sure that XSTATE_RESERVE has forced
> +	 * xregs_state to be large enough.  This is not fatal
> +	 * because we reserve a *lot* of extra room in the init
> +	 * task struct, but we should at least know we got it
> +	 * wrong.
> +	 */
> +	XSTATE_WARN_ON(xstate_size > sizeof(struct xregs_state));

So do we need to warn about this? arch_task_struct_size is already dynamic today.

The only problem would be the init task, which is allocated statically - can we 
fix that?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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