powerpc: Fix alignment bug within the init sections
This is a bug that causes early crashes in builds with an .exit.text section smaller than a page and an .init.text section that ends in the beginning of a physical page (this is kinda random, which might explain why this wasn't really encountered before). The init sections are ordered like this: .init.text .exit.text .init.data Currently, these sections aren't page aligned. Because the init code might become read-only at runtime and because the .init.text section can potentially reside on the same physical page as .init.data, the beginning of .init.data might be mapped read-only along with .init.text. Then when the kernel tries to modify a variable in .init.data (like kthreadd_done, used in kernel_init()) the kernel panics. To avoid this, make _einittext page aligned and also align .exit.text to make sure .init.data is always seperated from the text segments. Fixes: 060ef9d8 ("powerpc32: PAGE_EXEC required for inittext") Signed-off-by: Ariel Marcovitch <ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210102201156.10805-1-ariel.marcovitch@gmail.com
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