The MSA specification upon first read appears to suggest that it is safe
to perform vector loads & stores with arbitrary alignment. However it
leaves provision for "address-dependent exceptions"... Align the vector
context to a 16 byte boundary to ensure that the kernel cannot cause any
such exceptions.
Note that the fpu field of struct thread_struct was already at a 16 byte
boundary within the struct, the introduction of FPU_ALIGN simply makes
the requirement explicit. The only part of this impacting the generated
kernel binary is ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7308/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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