[PATCH 2/4] arm64: futex: ensure .fixup entries are sufficiently aligned

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Dec 17 07:20:05 EST 2013


AArch64 instructions must be 4-byte aligned, so make sure this is true
for the futex .fixup section.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
index c582fa316366..78cc3aba5d69 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 "	cbnz	%w3, 1b\n"						\
 "3:\n"									\
 "	.pushsection .fixup,\"ax\"\n"					\
+"	.align	2\n"							\
 "4:	mov	%w0, %w5\n"						\
 "	b	3b\n"							\
 "	.popsection\n"							\
-- 
1.8.2.2




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