On 11/9/18 9:20 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 11/9/18 9:17 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> But, later versions of the hardware have instructions that don't have >>> static offsets for the state components (when the XSAVES/XSAVEC >>> instructions are used). So, for those, the structure embedding isn't >>> used at *all* since some state might not be present. >> But *when present*, this structure is always aligned on an 8-byte >> boundary, right? Practically, though, I think it ends up always being aligned on an 8-byte boundary.
