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SubjectRe: [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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