Re: Linux 6.8-rc6

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 22:19 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> ...
> > > > 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?

We're actually planning to switch the default alignment in Gentoo and Debian on m68k
to 32 bits since a lot of upstream projects such as OpenJDK, Qt, LLVM, Firebird and
Mold and many more expect 32-bit alignment.

Adrian

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