[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.21.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From eb4833450e041a6de5a1d170eb4cff373c312bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:31:24 +1100
Subject: powerpc: Align p_dyn, p_rela and p_st symbols

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 at samba.org>
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_64.S
index b47a0e1..c712ece 100644
--- 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
--
1.8.3.2