This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section.
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mips-properly-align-the-.data..init_task-section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 7b1c0d26a8e272787f0f9fcc5f3e8531df3b3409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Daney <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:11:14 +0200
Subject: MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section.
From: David Daney <[email protected]>
commit 7b1c0d26a8e272787f0f9fcc5f3e8531df3b3409 upstream.
Improper alignment can lead to unbootable systems and/or random
crashes.
[[email protected]: This is a lond standing bug since
6eb10bc9e2deab06630261cd05c4cb1e9a60e980 (kernel.org) rsp.
c422a10917f75fd19fa7fe070aaaa23e384dae6f (lmo) [MIPS: Clean up linker script
using new linker script macros.] so dates back to 2.6.32.]
Signed-off-by: David Daney <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3881/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++--
arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ struct thread_info {
register struct thread_info *__current_thread_info __asm__("$28");
#define current_thread_info() __current_thread_info
+#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
+
/* thread information allocation */
#if defined(CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB) && defined(CONFIG_32BIT)
#define THREAD_SIZE_ORDER (1)
@@ -97,8 +99,6 @@ register struct thread_info *__current_t
#define free_thread_info(info) kfree(info)
-#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
-
#define PREEMPT_ACTIVE 0x10000000
/*
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#undef mips
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ SECTIONS
.data : { /* Data */
. = . + DATAOFFSET; /* for CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL */
- INIT_TASK_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+ INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE)
NOSAVE_DATA
CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
READ_MOSTLY_DATA(1 << CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/mips-properly-align-the-.data..init_task-section.patch
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