Re: [PATCH] x86/unwind/orc: Fix ORC unwind table alignment

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:44:01AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The .orc_unwind section is a packed array of 6-byte structs.  It's
> > currently aligned to 6 bytes, which is causing warnings in the LLD
> > linker.
> >
> > Six isn't a power of two, so it's not a valid alignment value.  The
> > actual alignment doesn't matter much because it's an array of packed
> > structs.  An alignment of two is sufficient.  In reality it always gets
> > aligned to four bytes because it comes immediately after the
> > 4-byte-aligned .orc_unwind_ip section.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/218
> > Fixes: ee9f8fce9964 ("x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder")
> 
> Thanks for the patch Josh, we appreciate it.  It looks like
> ee9f8fce9964 landed in v4.14-rc1.  Should we CC stable?

Yes, that would be a good idea.

Can the tip maintainers please add

  Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

when merging?

-- 
Josh