[PATCH] powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols

[Laurent Dufour]

On 03/03/2014 22:31, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> The 64bit relocation code places a few symbols in the text segment.
> These symbols are only 4 byte aligned where they need to be 8 byte
> aligned. Add an explicit alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org

Fix the issue I was seeing when booting a LE kernel in a KVM guest on my
P7 box.

Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> index 1482327..d88736f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ _GLOBAL(relocate)
>  
>  6:	blr
>  
> +.balign 8
>  p_dyn:	.llong	__dynamic_start - 0b
>  p_rela:	.llong	__rela_dyn_start - 0b
>  p_st:	.llong	_stext - 0b
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