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    [CRYPTO] api: Align tfm context as wide as possible · f10b7897
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    Since tfm contexts can contain arbitrary types we should provide at least
    natural alignment (__attribute__ ((__aligned__))) for them.  In particular,
    this is needed on the Xscale which is a 32-bit architecture with a u64 type
    that requires 64-bit alignment.  This problem was reported by Ronen Shitrit.
    
    The crypto_tfm structure's size was 44 bytes on 32-bit architectures and
    80 bytes on 64-bit architectures.  So adding this requirement only means
    that we have to add an extra 4 bytes on 32-bit architectures.
    
    On i386 the natural alignment is 16 bytes which also benefits the VIA
    Padlock as it no longer has to manually align its context structure to
    128 bits.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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