[Bug 1520162] Re: compiled binaries don't work on arm64 64k pages kernel due to alignment

[dann frazier]

I cannot reproduce this issue in xenial:

dannf at mustang:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial
dannf at mustang:~$ getconf PAGE_SIZE
65536
dannf at mustang:~$

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Title:
  compiled binaries don't work on arm64 64k pages kernel due to
  alignment

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Some binaries in 15.10 for aarch64 seem to be compiled with maxpagesize=4K which triggers issues when run on 64K pages
  arm64 kernels (tested on all kernels back to 4.0). I spotted this while trying to boot an arm64 kernel with 64K pages enabled on 15.10 Ubuntu filesystem.

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