tree e368b8b7850f34ffc6d39a8b0edc032c4b94dec9
parent 133890103b9de08904f909995973e4b5c08a780e
author Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> 1246387273 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1246413359 -0700

gcov: fix __ctors_start alignment

The ctors section for each object file is eight byte aligned (on 64 bit).
However the __ctors_start symbol starts at an arbitrary address dependent
on the size of the previous sections.

Therefore the linker may add some zeroes after __ctors_start to make sure
the ctors contents are properly aligned.  However the extra zeroes at the
beginning aren't expected by the code.  When walking the functions
pointers contained in there and extra zeroes are added this may result in
random jumps.  So make sure that the __ctors_start symbol is always
aligned as well.

Fixes this crash on an allyesconfig on s390:

[    0.582482] Kernel BUG at 0000000000000012 [verbose debug info unavailable]
[    0.582489] illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[    0.582496] Modules linked in:
[    0.582501] CPU: 0 Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-rc1-dirty #273
[    0.582506] Process swapper (pid: 1, task: 000000003f218000, ksp: 000000003f2238e8)
[    0.582510] Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 0000000000000012 (0x12)
[    0.582518]            R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
[    0.582524] Krnl GPRS: 0000000000036727 0000000000000010 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
[    0.582529]            00000000001dfefa 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000040
[    0.582534]            0000000001fff0f0 0000000001790628 0000000002296048 0000000002296048
[    0.582540]            00000000020c438e 0000000001786000 0000000002014a66 000000003f223e60
[    0.582553] Krnl Code:>0000000000000012: 0000                unknown
[    0.582559]            0000000000000014: 0000                unknown
[    0.582564]            0000000000000016: 0000                unknown
[    0.582570]            0000000000000018: 0000                unknown
[    0.582575]            000000000000001a: 0000                unknown
[    0.582580]            000000000000001c: 0000                unknown
[    0.582585]            000000000000001e: 0000                unknown
[    0.582591]            0000000000000020: 0000                unknown
[    0.582596] Call Trace:
[    0.582599] ([<0000000002014a46>] kernel_init+0x622/0x7a0)
[    0.582607]  [<0000000000113e22>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
[    0.582615]  [<0000000000113e1c>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
[    0.582621] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[    0.582624] Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[    0.582627]  [<0000000002014a64>] kernel_init+0x640/0x7a0

Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>