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.
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
---
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 f096e72..1db6851 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
--
2.1.4
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