Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:55:34 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] X86, mpx: Intel MPX xstate feature definition |
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:23:22AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/06/2013 05:46 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > I'm guessing this and the struct lwp_struct above is being added so that > > you can have the LWP XSAVE area size? If so, you don't need it: LWP > > XSAVE area is 128 bytes at offset 832 according to my manuals so I'd > > guess having a u8 lwp_area[128] should be fine. > > > Sure, but any reason to *not* document the internal structure?
Only that you might start getting remove-this-unused-struct patches. :-)
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