RE: Linux 6.8-rc6

[David Laight]

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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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