[PATCH] kallsyms: clean up alignment (potentially save a few byteson ARM)

[Alan Jenkins]

On ARM, .align N means "align to 2^N bytes".  What we actually want is
"align to N bytes".

Let's use the .balign directive of gnu as, which is explicitly defined
to address this issue.

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/kallsyms.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 86c3896..55de9e8 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -297,10 +297,10 @@ static void write_src(void)
 	printf("#include <asm/types.h>\n");
 	printf("#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64\n");
 	printf("#define PTR .quad\n");
-	printf("#define ALGN .align 8\n");
+	printf("#define ALGN .balign 8\n");
 	printf("#else\n");
 	printf("#define PTR .long\n");
-	printf("#define ALGN .align 4\n");
+	printf("#define ALGN .balign 4\n");
 	printf("#endif\n");
 
 	printf("\t.section .rodata, \"a\"\n");

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