linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 091/164] powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes

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Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2015 01:02:37 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Anton Blanchard" <anton@...ba.org>,
	"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 091/164] powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes

3.2.70-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>

commit 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.opd)
 	}
 
+	. = ALIGN(256);
 	.got : AT(ADDR(.got) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		__toc_start = .;
 		*(.got)

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