linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd: Align STACK

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Message-ID: <CAO_48GE_iTeuEdqjBQ-c7ENU+FLERrdu6HLDitJkRtE6Kteuqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:25:00 +0530
From:   Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
To:     Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@...aro.org>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, chunyan.zhang@...eadtrum.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: memfd: Align STACK_SIZE for ARM AArch64 system

Hello Orson,

Thanks for the patch.

On 10 August 2017 at 16:34, Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@...aro.org> wrote:
> The stack size should be 16 bytes aligned in arm64 system. The similar
> patch has been merged already.
>
>> <commit id: 1f78dda2cf5e4eeb00aee2a01c9515e2e704b4c0>
>> selftests: memfd_test: Revised STACK_SIZE to make it 16-byte aligned
>>
>>    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>
>>    Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@...aro.org>
Please feel free to add my
Reviewed-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/memfd/fuse_test.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/fuse_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/fuse_test.c
> index 67908b18f035..7f3617274bf5 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/fuse_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/memfd/fuse_test.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>  #include <unistd.h>
>
>  #define MFD_DEF_SIZE 8192
> -#define STACK_SIZE 65535
> +#define STACK_SIZE 65536
>
>  static int sys_memfd_create(const char *name,
>                             unsigned int flags)
> --
> 2.12.2
>

Best,
Sumit.