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Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations

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* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:

> @@ -447,6 +492,14 @@ static void do_extra_xstate_size_checks(
>  		paranoid_xstate_size += xfeature_size(i);
>  	}
>  	XSTATE_WARN_ON(paranoid_xstate_size != xstate_size);
> +	/*
> +	 * Basically, make sure that XSTATE_RESERVE has forced
> +	 * xregs_state to be large enough.  This is not fatal
> +	 * because we reserve a *lot* of extra room in the init
> +	 * task struct, but we should at least know we got it
> +	 * wrong.
> +	 */
> +	XSTATE_WARN_ON(xstate_size > sizeof(struct xregs_state));

So do we need to warn about this? arch_task_struct_size is already dynamic today.

The only problem would be the init task, which is allocated statically - can we 
fix that?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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[PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 06/11] x86, fpu: rework MPX 'xstate' types Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86, fpu: remove xfeature_nr Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/11] x86, fpu: kill LWP support Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/11] x86, fpu: rework YMM definition Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size  calculations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-28 16:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86, fpu: correct and check XSAVE xstate size calculations Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2015-08-28 18:50 +0200
  [PATCH 10/11] x86, fpu: check to ensure increasing-offset xstate offsets Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state components Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 08/11] x86, fpu: add C structures for AVX-512 state  components Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct declarations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct  declarations Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 11/11] x86, fpu: check CPU-provided sizes against struct  declarations Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-28 18:10 +0200
  [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead of test_bit() Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/11] x86, fpu: add helper xfeature_nr_enabled() instead  of test_bit() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/11] [v2] x86, fpu: XSAVE cleanups and sanity checks Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-08-28 07:20 +0200

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