[PATCH] force stackpointer alignment in 64bit kernel

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 00:23 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  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.
> 
> See http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-March/021342.html
> 
> Either yaboot and/or zImage need to force a stack alignment, or we apply
> the 2 liner.

Happy to look at/receive patches for yaboot.  I'll look on Monday.

Paul