linux-kernel - Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:06:54 +0000
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

On 11 January 2017 at 06:53, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2017 8:36 PM, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
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> Sure we can ban the use of attribute aligned on stacks.  But
> what about indirect uses through structures?
>
>
> It should be pretty trivial to add a sparse warning for that, though.
>

Couldn't we update the __aligned(x) macro to emit 32 if arch == x86
and x == 16? All other cases should work just fine afaict