On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Magnus Lindholm wrote: > 8-byte aligned. A quick-fix/workaround for this might be to avoid > using the __attribute__((__aligned__(x))) directive on > variables/structs declared on the stack in the kernel code (at least > for alpha), but to really get to the bottom of this, the kernel needs > to be fixed so that the kernel stack is in fact always 16-byte aligned > on alpha. This means that this bug is not really related to rcu or smp > but rather a mismatch between gcc and linux-alpha regarding psABI > compliance. Correct. Unless someone beats me to it, I'll work on a fix, but I'm busy with other stuff right now, so it may take a few weeks. Maciej