This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled parisc: Mark lock_aligned variables 16-byte aligned on SMP to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: parisc-mark-lock_aligned-variables-16-byte-aligned-on-smp.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b28fc0d8739c03e7b6c44914a9d00d4c6dddc0ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:11:56 +0100 Subject: parisc: Mark lock_aligned variables 16-byte aligned on SMP From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> commit b28fc0d8739c03e7b6c44914a9d00d4c6dddc0ea upstream. On parisc we need 16-byte alignment for variables which are used for locking. Mark the __lock_aligned attribute acordingly so that the .data..lock_aligned section will get that alignment in the generated object files. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.0+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ }) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP -# define __lock_aligned __section(".data..lock_aligned") +# define __lock_aligned __section(".data..lock_aligned") __aligned(16) #endif #endif /* __PARISC_LDCW_H */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are queue-6.6/parisc-ensure-32-bit-alignment-on-parisc-unwind-section.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-jump_table-naturally-aligned.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-ex_table-entries-32-bit-aligned-in-uaccess.h.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-altinstructions-read-only-and-32-bit-aligned.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-ex_table-entries-32-bit-aligned-in-assembly.h.patch queue-6.6/parisc-drop-the-hp-ux-enosym-and-eremoterelease-error-codes.patch queue-6.6/parisc-mark-lock_aligned-variables-16-byte-aligned-on-smp.patch queue-6.6/parisc-use-natural-cpu-alignment-for-bug_table.patch