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Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18] rseq: use __u64 for rseq_cs fields, valid ...

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:30 PM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:

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32-bit sub-parts.
All architectures that matter do.
All architectures that matter do.
Please don't overdesign this, or try to make a problem out of something that isn't a problem.
something that isn't a problem.
Sure, maybe some toy architecture does a 8-byte "get_user()" as a "copy_from_user()" one byte at a time, because that's the best way to do unaligned accesses.
do unaligned accesses.
But nobody will ever care about rseq on such a thing anyway.

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