The patch titled Subject: arch/sh: vmlinux.scr: align .rodata has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is arch-sh-vmlinuxscr-align-rodata.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arch-sh-vmlinuxscr-align-rodata.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arch-sh-vmlinuxscr-align-rodata.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Romain Naour <romain.naour@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: arch/sh: vmlinux.scr: align .rodata Since the patch [1], building the kernel using a toolchain built with Binutils 2.33.1 prevent booting a sh4 system under Qemu. Apply the patch provided by Alan Modra [2] that fix alignment of rodata. [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ebd2263ba9a9124d93bbc0ece63d7e0fae89b40e [2] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-12/msg00112.html Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m=158429470120959 Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bin Meng <bin.meng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chen Zhou <chenzhou10@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr~arch-sh-vmlinuxscr-align-rodata +++ a/arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ SECTIONS { - .rodata..compressed : { + .rodata..compressed : ALIGN(8) { input_len = .; LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .; *(.data) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from romain.naour@xxxxxxxxx are arch-sh-vmlinuxscr-align-rodata.patch include-asm-generic-vmlinuxldsh-align-ro_after_init.patch