On Friday 21 September 2007 23:19:35 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Kernel doesn't use SSE2, so it doesn't need 16 byte alignment. Also > > the stack can be already unaligned so letting the compiler align > > is useless. This may make some stack frames smaller. > > Shouldn't sources that are compiled into the VDSO or VSYSCALL pages > revert this to the default?
I see not reason. vdso/vsyscall don't contain any SSE code and also don't do any callbacks to other user code. Except for signals and signals already align the stack by themselves. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
