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

[Luis Henriques]

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-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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
--
1.9.0