This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols to the 3.13-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: powerpc-align-p_dyn-p_rela-and-p_st-symbols.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5b2cf5b1af424ee3dd9e3ce6d5cea18cb927e67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:31:24 +1100 Subject: powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> commit a5b2cf5b1af424ee3dd9e3ce6d5cea18cb927e67 upstream. 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@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- 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 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/powerpc-align-p_dyn-p_rela-and-p_st-symbols.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html