Re: [PATCH V5 5/8] MIPS: Align kernel load address to 64KB

Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> · Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:11:15 +0000

Hello,

Huacai Chen wrote:
> KEXEC needs the new kernel's load address to be aligned on a page
> boundary (see sanity_check_segment_list()), but on MIPS the default
> vmlinuz load address is only explicitly aligned to 16 bytes.
> 
> Since the largest PAGE_SIZE supported by MIPS kernels is 64KB, increase
> the alignment calculated by calc_vmlinuz_load_addr to 64KB.
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  # 2.6.36+
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to mips-next.

Thanks,
    Paul

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