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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:41:00 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: move FPU state into separate cache
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>
> Randomization also needs to leave thread_info at the beginning. Can it do that?
Good point, and good question. No idea if the gcc extension can do,
but yes, it clearly needs a "you can't move this entry".
I assume it has some such capability already, because it's fairly
common to have that kind of "beginning of structure if fixed" due to
unions of structures anyway.
Linus
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