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Message-ID: <20170302131119.6f52203f@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:11:19 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Zhigang Lu <zlu@...hip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: set __jump_table alignment to 8
Can I get an Ack from a module maintainer?
Thanks!
-- Steve
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:04:53 -0800
David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com> wrote:
> For powerpc the __jump_table section in modules is not aligned, this
> causes a WARN_ON() splat when loading a module containing a __jump_table.
>
> Strict alignment became necessary with commit 3821fd35b58d
> ("jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key"), currently in
> linux-next, which uses the two least significant bits of pointers to
> __jump_table elements.
>
> Fix by forcing __jump_table to 8, which is the same alignment used for
> this section in the kernel proper.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> scripts/module-common.lds | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/module-common.lds b/scripts/module-common.lds
> index 73a2c7d..53234e8 100644
> --- a/scripts/module-common.lds
> +++ b/scripts/module-common.lds
> @@ -19,4 +19,6 @@ SECTIONS {
>
> . = ALIGN(8);
> .init_array 0 : { *(SORT(.init_array.*)) *(.init_array) }
> +
> + __jump_table 0 : ALIGN(8) { KEEP(*(__jump_table)) }
> }
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