[PATCH] i386: Add comment for align to vmlinux.lds
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index cbd24860..c217e18 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@
*(.smp_altinstr_replacement)
__smp_alt_end = .;
}
+ /* will be freed after init
+ * Following ALIGN() is required to make sure no other data falls on the
+ * same page where __smp_alt_end is pointing as that page might be freed
+ * after boot. Always make sure that ALIGN() directive is present after
+ * the section which contains __smp_alt_end.
+ */
. = ALIGN(4096);
/* will be freed after init */