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[1/9] ARM: zImage: make sure the stack is 64-bit aligned

Message ID 1304031024-5121-2-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net
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Nicolas Pitre April 28, 2011, 10:50 p.m. UTC 
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

With ARMv5+ and EABI, the compiler expects a 64-bit aligned stack so
instructions like STRD and LDRD can be used.  Without this, mysterious
boot failures were seen semi randomly with the LZMA decompressor.

While at it, let's align .bss as well.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
CC: stable@kernel.org
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile       |    2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Tony Lindgren April 29, 2011, 6:58 a.m. UTC | #1 
* Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> [110428 15:47]:
> From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> 
> With ARMv5+ and EABI, the compiler expects a 64-bit aligned stack so
> instructions like STRD and LDRD can be used.  Without this, mysterious
> boot failures were seen semi randomly with the LZMA decompressor.
> 
> While at it, let's align .bss as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
> CC: stable@kernel.org

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 8ebbb51..0c6852d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@  ZTEXTADDR	:= $(CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT)
 ZBSSADDR	:= $(CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS)
 else
 ZTEXTADDR	:= 0
-ZBSSADDR	:= ALIGN(4)
+ZBSSADDR	:= ALIGN(8)
 endif
 
 SEDFLAGS	= s/TEXT_START/$(ZTEXTADDR)/;s/BSS_START/$(ZBSSADDR)/
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
index 5309909..ea80abe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@  SECTIONS
   .bss			: { *(.bss) }
   _end = .;
 
+  . = ALIGN(8);		/* the stack must be 64-bit aligned */
   .stack		: { *(.stack) }
 
   .stab 0		: { *(.stab) }