From patchwork Thu May 14 04:45:40 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Anton Blanchard X-Patchwork-Id: 472213 X-Patchwork-Delegate: michael@ellerman.id.au Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5797C1402B2 for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 14:46:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: from ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7C21A03DE for ; Thu, 14 May 2015 14:46:36 +1000 (AEST) X-Original-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org 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) Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 5C6E41402B2; 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> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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