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

    powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes

to the 3.14-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-toc-to-256-bytes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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


>From 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:45:40 +1000
Subject: powerpc: Align TOC to 256 bytes

From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>

commit 5e95235ccd5442d4a4fe11ec4eb99ba1b7959368 upstream.

Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need
to enforce this alignment in our linker script, otherwise pointers
to our TOC variables (__toc_start, __prom_init_toc_start) could
be incorrect.

If they are bad, we die a few hundred instructions into boot.

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

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

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ SECTIONS
                *(.opd)
        }
 
+       . = ALIGN(256);
        .got : AT(ADDR(.got) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
                __toc_start = .;
 #ifndef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE


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

queue-3.14/powerpc-align-toc-to-256-bytes.patch
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