arm64: do not enforce strict 16 byte alignment to stack pointer
copy_thread should not be enforcing 16 byte aligment and returning -EINVAL. Other architectures trap misaligned stack access with SIGBUS so arm64 should follow this convention, so remove the strict enforcement check. For example, currently clone(2) fails with -EINVAL when passing a misaligned stack and this gives little clue to what is wrong. Instead, it is arguable that a SIGBUS on the fist access to a misaligned stack allows one to figure out that it is a misaligned stack issue rather than trying to figure out why an unconventional (and undocumented) -EINVAL is being returned. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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