On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:57:00AM -0800, Chang S. Bae wrote: > In preparation for dynamic xstate buffer expansion, update the xstate > restore function parameters to equally handle static in-line xstate buffer, > as well as dynamically allocated xstate buffer. Ok, I see what you've done: you've slightly changed that same formulation depending on what the patch is doing. I need to read very carefully. What I would've written is: "Have all functions handling FPU state take a struct fpu * pointer in preparation for dynamic state buffer support." Plain and simple. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg