If bal is 8 bytes aligned, the _gp will not be 8 bytes aligned. then the following ld insntrustion generates a Adel exception. So here make _gp be always aligned in 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Zhi-zhou Zhang zhizhou.zh@gmail.com --- arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S index 4112de7..8e8cc33 100644 --- a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S +++ b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S @@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ reset: mtc0 t0, CP0_CONFIG #endif

- /* Initialize $gp */ + /* Initialize $gp, _gp must be 8 bytes algined. */ + .align 3 + nop + nop bal 1f nop .dword _gp