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

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Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:50:05 -0600
From:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it
 16-byte aligned

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@...aro.org>
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> This should probably also be marked
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> 

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

-- Shuah

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Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Open Source Innovation Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
shuahkh@....samsung.com | (970) 217-8978
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