From: Vivek Goyal Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:29:09 +0000 (-0500) Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a14f2964b459c18198ee59ff7212321def82df7;p=linux-beck.git [PATCH] x86_64: Align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary o Explicitly align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary otherwise depending on config options and tool chain it might be placed on a non PAGE_SIZE aligned boundary and vmlinux loaders like kexec fail when they encounter a PT_LOAD type segment which is not aligned to PAGE_SIZE boundary. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index edb24aa714b4..d9534e750d4f 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ SECTIONS } #endif + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Align data segment to page size boundary */ /* Data */ .data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data)