linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] jump label: add _ASM_ALIGN for x86 and x86

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:58:27 -0400
From:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 3/4] jump label: add _ASM_ALIGN for x86 and x86_64

The linker should not be adding holes to word size aligned pointers, but
out of paranoia we are explicitly specifying that alignment. I have not
seen any holes in the jump label section in practice.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
index f217cee..a32b18c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key)
 	asm goto("1:"
 		JUMP_LABEL_INITIAL_NOP
 		".pushsection __jump_table,  \"aw\" \n\t"
+		_ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
 		_ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
 		".popsection \n\t"
 		: :  "i" (key) : : l_yes);
-- 
1.7.1

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