This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes to the 3.14-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-toc-to-256-bytes.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:40 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 upstream. Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to enforce this alignment in our linker script, otherwise pointers to our TOC variables (__toc_start, __prom_init_toc_start) could be incorrect. If they are bad, we die a few hundred instructions into boot. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.opd) } + . = ALIGN(256); .got : AT(ADDR(.got) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __toc_start = .; #ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/powerpc-align-toc-to-256-bytes.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