[PATCH] powerpc: Fix alignment of secondary cpu spin vars

[Olof Johansson]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in
> losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting
> secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on
> PA Semi-based systems.
>
> This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig,
> so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set.
>
> Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :)
>
> Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline')
> Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>

Sigh, it's not this after all. I did a clean build with this applied
and still see failures. Something else is (also?) going on here.


-Olof