Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:20 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>> OK, I found it. There is a struct defined as
>>
>> struct entry {
>> ...
>> } __attribute__((__aligned__((1 << (4)))));
>>
>> and then in timer_stats_update_stats you have a local variable of type
>> struct entry:
>>
>> void timer_stats_update_stats()
>> {
>> spinlock_t *lock;
>> struct entry *entry, input;
>>
>> So, gcc has to 16-align the stack pointer to satisfy the alignment
>> for struct entry.
>
> It has to align the entire stack? Why not just the variable within the
> stack?
How?. gcc has to know, at compile time, the offset from sp of each variable.
So, it of course makes sure that offset is 16-aligned, but it also has to
16-align the stack pointer.
Andrew.
