On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> wrote: > > Indeed, I stand corrected. But in any case, the use of __aligned(8) in > the patchset ensures that things are fixed and that we don't have this > issue.
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.
Linus
