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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S index 4112de7026..2b8d531e73 100644 --- a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S +++ b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S @@ -108,7 +108,12 @@ reset: mtc0 t0, CP0_CONFIG #endif - /* Initialize $gp */ + /* + * Initialize $gp, force 8 byte alignment of bal instruction to forbid + * the compiler to put nop's between bal and _gp. This is required to + * keep _gp and ra aligned to 8 byte. + */ + .align 3 bal 1f nop .dword _gp |