Commit ef647894 authored Mar 16, 2011 by Jason Baron Committed by Steven Rostedt Apr 04, 2011

jump label: Add _ASM_ALIGN for x86 and x86_64

The linker should not be adding holes to word size aligned pointers, but
out of paranoia we are explicitly specifying that alignment. I have not
seen any holes in the jump label section in practice.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <e119fbd060c9452c56063ea6148ba1070e7434cc.1300299760.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

parent d430d3d7

arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h

+1 −0

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		@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key)
		asm goto("1:"
		JUMP_LABEL_INITIAL_NOP
		".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
		_ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
		_ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
		".popsection \n\t"
		: : "i" (key) : : l_yes);