On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:

Commit 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline') resulted in
losing proper alignment of the spinlock variables used when booting
secondary CPUs, causing some quite odd issues with failing to boot on
PA Semi-based systems.

This showed itself on ppc64_defconfig, but not on pasemi_defconfig,
so it had gone unnoticed when I initially tested the LE patch set.

Fix is to add explicit alignment instead of relying on good luck. :)

Fixes: 5c0484e25ec0 ('powerpc: Endian safe trampoline')
Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <redacted>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67811
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <redacted>

Sigh, it's not this after all. I did a clean build with this applied
and still see failures. Something else is (also?) going on here.


-Olof