[PATCH] force stackpointer alignment in 64bit kernel

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Sat Mar 4 07:09:20 EST 2006


 On Fri, Mar 03, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> >The stackpointer came from 32bit code, which appearently has different
> >alignment rules than 64bit code. The chain was yaboot -> zImage ->  
> >vmlinux
> >Force the stackpointer to be 16 byte aligned.
> 
> The stack pointer is required to be 16-byte aligned when the
> client program is started, on 32-bit as well.

So the magic word is yaboot.



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