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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
	bp@alien8.de, fenghua.yu@intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:25:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828052500.GH25556@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827171111.0552D053@viggo.jf.intel.com>


* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.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

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-28  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27 17:11 [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  4:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86, fpu: rework XSTATE_* macros to remove magic '2' Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86, fpu: rename xfeature_bit Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:16   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead of test_bit() Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:04   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86, fpu: rework MPX 'xstate' types Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86, fpu: rework YMM definition Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state components Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, fpu: check to ensure increasing-offset xstate offsets Dave Hansen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  4:54   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-28 14:31     ` Dave Hansen
2015-08-28 16:44       ` Andi Kleen
2015-08-27 17:11 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:25   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-08-28 16:02     ` Dave Hansen
2015-08-28  5:18 ` [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-25 20:12 [PATCH 00/11] " Dave Hansen
2015-08-25 20:12 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations Dave Hansen
2015-08-26 16:18   ` Tim Chen
2015-08-26 16:19     ` Dave Hansen

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