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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:08:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/59] x86/build: Ensure proper function alignment
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        x86@kernel.org, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
        Johannes Wikner <kwikner@ethz.ch>,
        Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@linux.intel.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
        Joao Moreira <joao.moreira@intel.com>,
        Joseph Nuzman <joseph.nuzman@intel.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
        K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 4:09 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Found it: https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.39/as/Balign.html
>
> 7.8 .balign[wl] [abs-expr[, abs-expr[, abs-expr]]]
>
> Pad the location counter [...]

Very good. All looks sane to me then.

              Linus