[PATCH 5.4 171/215] s390/entry: align system call table on 8 bytes

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5.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 378ca2d2ad410a1cd5690d06b46c5e2297f4c8c0 upstream.

Align system call table on 8 bytes. With sys_call_table entry size
of 8 bytes that eliminates the possibility of a system call pointer
crossing cache line boundary.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/s390/kernel/entry.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
@@ -1542,6 +1542,7 @@ ENDPROC(cleanup_critical)
 	.quad   .Lsie_skip - .Lsie_entry
 #endif
 	.section .rodata, "a"
+	.balign	8
 #define SYSCALL(esame,emu)	.quad __s390x_ ## esame
 	.globl	sys_call_table
 sys_call_table:






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