linux-kernel - [PATCH] IA64: alignment bug in ldscript

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:04:31 +0300
From:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
To:	tony.luck@...el.com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <alexey@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: [PATCH] IA64: alignment bug in ldscript

[IA64] bug in ldscript (mainstream)

Occasionally, in mainstream number of fsys entries is even.
In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image,
which does not boot.

Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>

diff -urp ../linux-2.6.18-vz/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S linux-2.6.18-vz/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- ../linux-2.6.18-vz/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-12-08 13:34:19.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.18-vz/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-12-13 02:51:03.000000000 +0300
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	}
 #endif
 
+  . = ALIGN(8);
    __con_initcall_start = .;
   .con_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.con_initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET)
 	{ *(.con_initcall.init) }

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