On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you can/should just use the natural alignment for "u64". > > For architectures that need 8-byte alignment, u64 will already be > properly aligned. For architectures (like x86-32) that only need > 4-byte alignment, you get it.
I should have added mention of that with my previous email. For the parameters that are always a multiple of u64 -- namely, the key -- I now do that in v5 of the patchset. So this is already done.
