[PATCH] alpha: fix GP-load symbol linkage

From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

This skips the GP-loading function prologue (two instructions: 8 bytes)
on BRSGP linkage correctly, fixing an oops on alpha while loading the
aic7xxx driver.

arch/alpha/kernel/module.c

@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs, const char *strtab,
 			   value was resolved from somewhere else.  */
 			if (sym->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF)
 				goto reloc_overflow;
+			if ((sym->st_other & STO_ALPHA_STD_GPLOAD) ==
+			    STO_ALPHA_STD_GPLOAD)
+				/* Omit the prologue. */
+				value += 8;
 			/* FALLTHRU */
 		case R_ALPHA_BRADDR:
 			value -= (u64)location + 4;

include/asm-alpha/elf.h

 #ifndef __ASM_ALPHA_ELF_H
 #define __ASM_ALPHA_ELF_H
 
+/* Special values for the st_other field in the symbol table.  */
+
+#define STO_ALPHA_NOPV		0x80
+#define STO_ALPHA_STD_GPLOAD	0x88
+
 /*
  * Alpha ELF relocation types
  */