From: Will Deacon Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:01:09 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 7290/1: vmlinux.lds.S: align the exception fixup table to a 4-byte boundary X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=972da06470519b6eaef9776a586e2353f089de9c;p=linux-edison.git ARM: 7290/1: vmlinux.lds.S: align the exception fixup table to a 4-byte boundary The exception fixup table is currently aligned to a 32-byte boundary. Whilst this won't cause any problems, the exception_table_entry structures contain only a pair of unsigned longs, so 4-byte alignment is all that is required. If the table was walked from start to end, cacheline alignment may bring some performance benefits, but since a binary search is used, the access pattern is random and will not benefit from a stricter alignment. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King --- diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 1077e4ff6f3..1e19691e040 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ SECTIONS /* * The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime) */ - . = ALIGN(32); + . = ALIGN(4); __start___ex_table = .; #ifdef CONFIG_MMU *(__ex_table)