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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"jmattson@google.com" <jmattson@google.com>,
	"joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"vkuznets@redhat.com" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"wanpengli@tencent.com" <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86/xen: Explicitly pad struct compat_vcpu_info to 64 bytes
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:13:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCRMY17WEdpJYd3C@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8752a59b694671d25308d644cba661c4ec128094.camel@amazon.co.uk>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 10:26 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> So it isn't clear the additionally padding really buys us anything; if
> we play this game without knowing the ABI we'd be screwed anyway. But
> it doesn't hurt.

Ya, this is purely for folks reading the code and wondering how 62==64.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-10 18:26 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: x86/xen: Selftest fixes and a cleanup Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: selftests: Ignore recently added Xen tests' build output Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 20:52   ` [EXTERNAL] " David Woodhouse
2021-02-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: selftests: Fix size of memslots created by Xen tests Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 20:53   ` [EXTERNAL] " David Woodhouse
2021-02-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: selftests: Fix hex vs. decimal snafu in Xen test Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 20:54   ` Woodhouse, David
2021-02-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: sefltests: Don't bother mapping GVA for Xen shinfo test Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 21:04   ` [EXTERNAL] " David Woodhouse
2021-02-10 18:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86/xen: Explicitly pad struct compat_vcpu_info to 64 bytes Sean Christopherson
2021-02-10 20:51   ` Woodhouse, David
2021-02-10 21:13     ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-02-10 21:20       ` Woodhouse, David
2021-02-10 18:37 ` [PATCH 0/5] KVM: x86/xen: Selftest fixes and a cleanup Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-10 18:49   ` Sean Christopherson

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