On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The 8-byte alignment mainly makes sense when the basic call sequence
> just adds 8 bytes, and you have functions without frames (that still
> call other functions).

The question is does it really make sense to save those 8 bytes
of padding on x86-64 when arm64 apparently also requires 16-byte
stack alignment.

Cheers,
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