[PATCH] powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars

Olof Johansson
2013-12-28T21:00:52Z

Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in
losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting
secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on
PA Semi-based systems.

This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig,
so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set.

Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :)

Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline')
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index 2ae41ab..4d94477 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION(0, 1)
* of the function that the cpu should jump to to continue
* initialization.
*/
+ .balign 8
.globl __secondary_hold_spinloop
__secondary_hold_spinloop:
.llong 0x0
--
1.7.10.4