The previous explanation was rather cryptic. Also transform "u32 [64]" to the more readable "u8[256]" form.
No change in implementation. Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h index 9bd2cd1a19fd..8a5120a3b48b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/types.h @@ -78,9 +78,16 @@ struct i387_soft_struct { u32 entry_eip; }; +/* + * There are 16x 256-bit AVX registers named YMM0-YMM15. + * The low 128 bits are aliased to the 16 SSE registers (XMM0-XMM15) + * and are stored in 'struct i387_fxsave_struct::xmm_space[]'. + * + * The high 128 bits are stored here: + * 16x 128 bits == 256 bytes. + */ struct ymmh_struct { - /* 16 * 16 bytes for each YMMH-reg = 256 bytes */ - u32 ymmh_space[64]; + u8 ymmh_space[256]; }; /* We don't support LWP yet: */ -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
