From patchwork Thu Apr 28 22:50:16 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Nicolas Pitre X-Patchwork-Id: 1226 Return-Path: Delivered-To: unknown Received: from imap.gmail.com (74.125.159.109) by localhost6.localdomain6 with IMAP4-SSL; 08 Jun 2011 14:50:20 -0000 Delivered-To: patches@linaro.org Received: by 10.224.2.73 with SMTP id 9cs165916qai; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.95.203 with SMTP id dm11mr2138463vdb.213.1304031048911; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e8si3612947vby.53.2011.04.28.15.50.48; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 24.201.245.36 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of nico@fluxnic.net) client-ip=24.201.245.36; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 24.201.245.36 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of nico@fluxnic.net) smtp.mail=nico@fluxnic.net Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by VL-MR-MRZ22.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LKD00G7HWSMR9A0@VL-MR-MRZ22.ip.videotron.ca> for patches@linaro.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:50:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tony Lindgren , patches@linaro.org Subject: [PATCH 1/9] ARM: zImage: make sure the stack is 64-bit aligned Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:50:16 -0400 Message-id: <1304031024-5121-2-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4 In-reply-to: <1304031024-5121-1-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net> References: <1304031024-5121-1-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net> From: Nicolas Pitre 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 Tested-by: Shawn Guo CC: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Tony Lindgren --- arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +- arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 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) }