Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: x86/xen: Explicitly pad struct compat_vcpu_info to 64 bytes

[Woodhouse, David]

On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 13:13 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough. That kind of thing is why I littered the code with
assertions based on sizeof() and offsetof() :)



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