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Force 16 byte alignment of preloaded files on i386 and amd64.
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Authored by markj on Jul 19 2018, 8:36 PM.
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Summary

This is required to support early microcode loading, which occurs before
we can use a kernel memory allocator to make an aligned copy of the
microcode update file.

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The approach taken in D16370 means that we don't need this anymore. There is some argument for providing a minimum alignment of CACHE_LINE_SIZE or so to all preloaded files, but this change isn't the right way to do that.