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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/x32] x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:09 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 04/18/2012 04:54 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> We could.  If we want to align the substructures then we need some major
>>> surgery to the compat_siginfo handling though.
>>>
>>
>> Since there will be no x32 kernel, align struct siginfo to 8byte for x32
>> will only be for user space code.  It shouldn't be a problem for kernel.
>>
>
> Well, for aligning the whole structure I don't think there is any change
> to the kernel at all...
>

That is true.  This is only by user codes to pass 8bye aligned
struct siginfo pointer to kernel.

-- 
H.J.