[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes" 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 TOC to 256 bytes

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt13.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:40 +1000
Subject: powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes

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 at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index f096e72262f4..1db685104ffc 100644
--- 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