From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [103.22.144.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75B331A03DE for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:43 +1000 (AEST) From: Anton Blanchard To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, amodra@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:40 +1000 Message-Id: <1431578740-29745-1-git-send-email-anton@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index f096e72..1db6851 100644 --- 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 -- 2.1.4