Fix alignment for CONFIG_IA64_SGI The _con.... variables happened to be placed on a 4 byte boundary in some compiles for CONFIG_IA64_SGI. Wasted some time chasing ghosts in functions that were never executed but modifications to these function would oops the system. Make sure that this does not happen again. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2006-10-04 21:57:05.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc1-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2006-10-10 21:45:30.768864235 -0500 @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ SECTIONS } #endif + . = ALIGN(16); __con_initcall_start = .; .con_initcall.init : AT(ADDR(.con_initcall.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.con_initcall.init) }