On ARM, .align N means "align to 2^N bytes". What we actually want is
"align to N bytes".
Let's use the .balign directive of gnu as, which is explicitly defined
to address this issue.
Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <[email protected]>
---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 86c3896..55de9e8 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ static void write_src(void)
printf("#include <asm/types.h>\n");
printf("#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64\n");
printf("#define PTR .quad\n");
- printf("#define ALGN .align 8\n");
+ printf("#define ALGN .balign 8\n");
printf("#else\n");
printf("#define PTR .long\n");
- printf("#define ALGN .align 4\n");
+ printf("#define ALGN .balign 4\n");
printf("#endif\n");
printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n");