Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it 16-byte aligned

From	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it 16-byte aligned
Date	2015-10-15 16:00 +0200
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On 10/15/2015 02:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2015 15:33:02 Chunyan Zhang wrote:
>> There is a mandate of 16-byte aligned stack on AArch64 [1], so the
>> STACK_SIZE here should also be 16-byte aligned, otherwise we would
>> get an error when calling clone().
>>
>> [1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c#L265
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> This should probably also be marked
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> 

Thank you both. Now applied to linux-kselftest next for 4.4

-- Shuah

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Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it 16-byte aligned Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-10-15 10:50 +0200
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