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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 18 15:17:59 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>
---

And this is the right patch after a "quilt ref" and without typo :-)

 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- 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 15:16:54.000000000 +1000
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.data.page_aligned)
 	}
 
+	. = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
 	.data.cacheline_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data.cacheline_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 		*(.data.cacheline_aligned)
 	}



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