From 3af9815328bba76e8d11d71d6dbbd6f38beafe58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:29:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [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 --- arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index edb24aa..d9534e7 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) -- 2.7.4