From: Kirill Korotaev Occasionally the FSYS_RETURN patch list can have an odd length, causing other data structures to get out of alignment. In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image, which does not boot. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~ia64-alignment-bug-in-ldscript arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S~ia64-alignment-bug-in-ldscript +++ a/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ SECTIONS } #endif + . = ALIGN(8); __con_initcall_start = .; .con_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.con_initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.con_initcall.init) } _