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    [POWERPC] Fix register save area alignment for swapcontext syscall · 1c9bb1a0
    Paul Mackerras authored
    
    
    For 32-bit processes, the getcontext side of the swapcontext system
    call (i.e. the saving of the context when the first argument is
    non-NULL) has to set the ctx->uc_mcontext.uc_regs pointer to the place
    where it saves the registers.  Which it does, but it doesn't ensure
    that the pointer is 16-byte aligned.  16-byte alignment is needed
    because the Altivec/VMX registers are saved in there, and they need to
    be on a 16-byte boundary.
    
    This fixes it by ensuring the appropriate alignment of the pointer.
    This issue was pointed out by Jakub Jelinek.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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