From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753068Ab2GZVVh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:21:37 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:45953 "EHLO mail-gh0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752945Ab2GZVVe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:21:34 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, David Daney , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: [ 14/23] MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section. Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:19:53 -0700 Message-Id: <20120726211407.157467961@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120726211405.959857593@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120726211420.GA7678@kroah.com> <20120726211405.959857593@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-20.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Daney commit 7b1c0d26a8e272787f0f9fcc5f3e8531df3b3409 upstream. Improper alignment can lead to unbootable systems and/or random crashes. [ralf@linux-mips.org: This is a lond standing bug since 6eb10bc9e2deab06630261cd05c4cb1e9a60e980 (kernel.org) rsp. c422a10917f75fd19fa7fe070aaaa23e384dae6f (lmo) [MIPS: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.] so dates back to 2.6.32.] Signed-off-by: David Daney Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3881/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++-- arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ struct thread_info { register struct thread_info *__current_thread_info __asm__("$28"); #define current_thread_info() __current_thread_info +#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ + /* thread information allocation */ #if defined(CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB) && defined(CONFIG_32BIT) #define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER (1) @@ -97,8 +99,6 @@ register struct thread_info *__current_t #define free_thread_info(info) kfree(info) -#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ - #define PREEMPT_ACTIVE 0x10000000 /* --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ #include #include +#include #include #undef mips @@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ SECTIONS .data : { /* Data */ . = . + DATAOFFSET; /* for CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL */ - INIT_TASK_DATA(PAGE_SIZE) + INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE) NOSAVE_DATA CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT) READ_MOSTLY_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT)