[PATCH] ppc64: Correct alignment for lppaca in paca_struct

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi Andrew,

I think this is 2.6.10 material, as well as lparcfg it fixes a nasty 
bug in our shared processor support (some cpus fail to recognise they
are in shared processor mode).

Anton

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From: Will Schmidt <willschm@xxxxxxxxxx>

We found that we were failing register_vpa calls in cases where the lppaca
structure (part of the PACA) crosses a page boundary.

This was causing us (lparcfg specifically) some grief as the xSharedProc bit 
was not being set.

The attached patch changes the alignment of the lppaca structure, and a few 
comments so we understand why.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <willschm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>

--- a/include/asm-ppc64/paca.h	2004-12-03 13:03:09.048520608 -0600
+++ b/include/asm-ppc64/paca.h	2004-12-03 13:18:17.433655752 -0600
@@ -99,11 +99,13 @@
 	u64 exdsi[8];		/* used for linear mapping hash table misses 
 	*/

 	/*
-	 * iSeries structues which the hypervisor knows about - Not
-	 * sure if these particularly need to be cacheline aligned.
+	 * iSeries structues which the hypervisor knows about -
+	 * This structure should not cross a page boundary.
+	 * The vpa_init/register_vpa call is now known to fail if the lppaca
+	 * structure crosses a page boundary.
 	 * The lppaca is also used on POWER5 pSeries boxes.
 	 */
-	struct ItLpPaca lppaca __attribute__((aligned(0x80)));
+	struct ItLpPaca lppaca __attribute__((aligned(0x400)));
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
 	struct ItLpRegSave reg_save;
 #endif

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