[PATCH] powerpc: Explicit alignment for .data.cacheline_aligned

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 18 14:29:03 EST 2009


I don't think anything guarantees that the objects in data.page_aligned
are a multiple of PAGE_SIZE, thus the section may end on any boundary.

So the following section, .data.cacheline_aligned needs an explicit
alignment.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2009-05-18 14:24:05.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2009-05-18 14:24:22.000000000 +1000
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.data.page_aligned)
 	}
 
-	.data.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+	.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
 	}
 



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