linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK

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Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:44:15 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
Cc:	shuahkh@....samsung.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it 16-byte aligned

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@...aro.org>
> 

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

This should probably also be marked

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
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