Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: Linux 6.8-rc6 | Date | Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:19:20 +0000 |
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... > >> I suspect this may be caused by the test assuming that stack growth is > >> downward, but I don't really understand the test well enough to be sure. > >> I'll disable this set of tests for m68k going forward, so I am not going > >> to report the problem again in the future. > > > > On m68k, the stack does grow downward. > > Sorry, I meant to say upward, but apparently I was wrong.
Maybe because m68k only has 2 byte alignment for 32 bit items. That causes grief in many places. Although kmalloc() returning a larger alignment would fix some of them without using much more memory?
David
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