From: Jason Baron 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 LKML-Reference: Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- 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); -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/