From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86-64: Maintain 16-byte stack alignment
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:40:59 +0100
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* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> I find it rather annoying that gcc before 4.8 malfunctions when it
> sees __aligned__(16) on x86_64 kernels.  Sigh.

Ran into this when writing silly FPU in-kernel testcases a couple of months ago...

Thanks,

	Ingo