From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:50054 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751986AbbFCCnS (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2015 22:43:18 -0400 Subject: Patch "powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree To: anton@samba.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:43:03 +0900 Message-ID: <143329938323381@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-align-toc-to-256-bytes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:40 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes From: Anton Blanchard commit 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 upstream. Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to enforce this alignment in our linker script, otherwise pointers to our TOC variables (__toc_start, __prom_init_toc_start) could be incorrect. If they are bad, we die a few hundred instructions into boot. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.opd) } + . = ALIGN(256); .got : AT(ADDR(.got) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __toc_start = .; #ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@samba.org are queue-4.0/powerpc-align-toc-to-256-bytes.patch