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* [PATCH] powerpc: Align p_end
@ 2013-12-23  1:19 Anton Blanchard
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From: Anton Blanchard @ 2013-12-23  1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: benh, paulus; +Cc: linuxppc-dev


p_end is an 8 byte value embedded in the text section. This means it
is only 4 byte aligned when it should be 8 byte aligned. Fix this
by adding an explicit alignment.

This fixes an issue where POWER7 little endian builds with 
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y fail to boot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index 2ae41ab..fad2abd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ _STATIC(__after_prom_start)
 	mtctr	r8
 	bctr
 
+.balign 8
 p_end:	.llong	_end - _stext
 
 4:	/* Now copy the rest of the kernel up to _end */

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