[PATCH 1/2] Make dtstruct variable to be 8 byte aligned kexec is creating a version 3 device tree to be backwards compatible. This version of the struct has 8-byte alignment for properties whose value is 8 or more bytes. As the code directly checks the pointer when deciding to add the alignment word, the struct memory must start on an 8 byte boundary. Force the dtstruct variable to be always 8 bytes aligned. Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan at in.ibm.com> --- kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c b/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c index 1f551fd..b01ff86 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c +++ b/kexec/arch/ppc64/fs2dt.c @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static char pathname[MAXPATH], *pathstart; static char propnames[NAMESPACE] = { 0 }; -static unsigned dtstruct[TREEWORDS], *dt; +static unsigned dtstruct[TREEWORDS] __attribute__ ((aligned (8))), *dt; static unsigned long long mem_rsrv[2*MEMRESERVE] = { 0, 0 }; static int crash_param = 0; -- 1.6.2.5