Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

BTW this is with Debian gcc 4.7.2 which does not allow an 8-byte
stack alignment as attempted by the Makefile:

I'm pretty sure we have random asm code that may not maintain a
sus16-byte stack alignment when it calls other code (including, in some
cases, calling C code).

I suspect so.

If we change this, changing pt_regs might make sense but is kind of
weird.  It also needs to be tested with and without frame pointers.

So I'm not at all convinced that this is a good idea. We shouldn't
expect 16-byte alignment to be something trustworthy.

                 Linus

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