Ingo noted that if we can guarantee _end is aligned to PAGE_SIZE we
can automatically avoid bugs along the lines of,
size = _end - _text >> PAGE_SHIFT
which is missing a call to PFN_ALIGN(). The EFI mixed mode contains
this bug, for example.
_text is already aligned to PAGE_SIZE through the use of
LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR, and the BSS and BRK sections are explicitly
aligned in the linker script, so it makes sense to align _end to
match.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 74e4bf11f562..4f1994257a18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ SECTIONS
__brk_limit = .;
}
+ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
--
2.6.2
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