On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 04:05:04PM +0530, Arun KS wrote: > __early_cpu_boot_status is of type long. Use quad > assembler directive to allocate proper size. > > Signed-off-by: Arun KS <[email protected]> > --- > arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S > index eecf792..115f332 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S > @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ ENTRY(__boot_cpu_mode) > * with MMU turned off. > */ > ENTRY(__early_cpu_boot_status) > - .long 0 > + .quad 0
Yikes. How did you spot this? Did we end up corrupting an adjacent variable, or does the alignment in the linker script save us in practice? Will

