This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc: Align p_end

to the 3.12-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:
     powerpc-align-p_end.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 286e4f90a72c0b0621dde0294af6ed4b0baddabb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:19:51 +1100
Subject: powerpc: Align p_end

From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>

commit 286e4f90a72c0b0621dde0294af6ed4b0baddabb upstream.

p_end is an 8 byte value embedded in the text section. This means it
is only 4 byte aligned when it should be 8 byte aligned. Fix this
by adding an explicit alignment.

This fixes an issue where POWER7 little endian builds with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y fail to boot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ _STATIC(__after_prom_start)
        mtctr   r8
        bctr
 
+.balign 8
 p_end: .llong  _end - _stext
 
 4:     /* Now copy the rest of the kernel up to _end */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.12/powerpc-align-p_end.patch
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