Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: drop unneded members of struct cpuinfo_x86

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 12:56:39 EST


Hi Boris,

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:12:07PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> Those member serve no purpose -- not even fill padding for alignment or
>> such. So just get rid of them.
>
> Well, almost. You need the wp_works_ok removal patch too, otherwise you
> have the 3 bytes hole below.

That's because you removed a char in commit 93a829e8e2c292f1
("x86, cpu: Convert FDIV bug detection), without compensating with padding ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds