Re: [PATCH] linux/export.h: remove unneeded .balign directive

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 10:54:54PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The .export_symbol section is discarded by the linker script, hence
> no alignment is needed. Simplify the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

With this patch in linux-next, all sh4 builds fail.

Building sh:defconfig ... failed
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Error log:
<stdin>:1519:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:6: Error: misaligned data
{standard input}:7: Error: misaligned data
{standard input}:8: Error: misaligned data
make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:243: arch/sh/boards/mach-x3proto/ilsel.o] Error 1

Reverting this patch fixes the problem.

Guenter

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