5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sumanth Korikkar sumanthk@linux.ibm.com
commit 378ca2d2ad410a1cd5690d06b46c5e2297f4c8c0 upstream.
Align system call table on 8 bytes. With sys_call_table entry size of 8 bytes that eliminates the possibility of a system call pointer crossing cache line boundary.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Suggested-by: Ulrich Weigand ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev agordeev@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar sumanthk@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik gor@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/entry.S @@ -1542,6 +1542,7 @@ ENDPROC(cleanup_critical) .quad .Lsie_skip - .Lsie_entry #endif .section .rodata, "a" + .balign 8 #define SYSCALL(esame,emu) .quad __s390x_ ## esame .globl sys_call_table sys_call_table: