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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:06:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu9yAxLHM4anS0m+gyeNio=RLcG=VvtRDeO5YNnJBvW95A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw+Z_ieo6DzTVB6_-TvQ0jj60s=T0mvXfqkBVFdKFPw_Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 11 January 2017 at 06:53, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2017 8:36 PM, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>
> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-11  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 14:33 x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment Herbert Xu
2017-01-10 14:39 ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-10 17:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-10 17:09     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-11  3:11     ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11  3:30       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-11  4:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-11  4:35           ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11  6:01             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-12  6:21               ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-12  7:40                 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-12 14:02                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12 19:51                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-12 20:08                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-12 20:15                       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12 20:55                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12 21:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-13  8:38                             ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-13  1:46                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-13  3:11                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-13  3:23                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-13  4:27                               ` Josh Poimboeuf
     [not found]                                 ` <CA+55aFzRrSwGxxfZk-RUEnsz=xhcSmOwE1CenfCPBWtsS9MwDw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-13  5:07                                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-13  8:43                                     ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-13  8:42                                   ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-13  8:39                           ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-13  8:36                       ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-13 13:07                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
     [not found]             ` <CA+55aFw+Z_ieo6DzTVB6_-TvQ0jj60s=T0mvXfqkBVFdKFPw_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-11  8:06               ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2017-01-11  8:09                 ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11 18:20                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-12  7:05     ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-12  7:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-12 14:49         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12  7:51       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-12  8:04         ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-12  8:18           ` Ingo Molnar
2017-01-12 15:03         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12 15:06           ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-12 15:18             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-12 15:10           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-01-10 17:30 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-10 19:00   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-10 19:16     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-10 19:22       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-10 20:00         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-10 23:25           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-11  3:26             ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11  3:26         ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11  3:16     ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-11  3:15   ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-12  6:12   ` Herbert Xu
2017-01-12  8:01     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-12  8:06       ` Herbert Xu

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