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authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>2011-01-18 08:57:49 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-18 09:05:33 +0100
commit86b1e8dd83cbb0fcbf3d61d2b461df8be1f528cf (patch)
tree8dd49e97b8bec76b53798fe35a423dd20596603f /arch
parent76d1f7bfcd5872056902c5a88b5fcd5d4d00a7a9 (diff)
x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y option is broken with new binutils, which will make boot panic. According to Lu Hongjiu, the affected binutils are from 2.20.51.0.12 to 2.21.51.0.3, which are release since Oct 22 this year. At least ubuntu 10.10 is using such binutils. See: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327 The reason of the boot panic is that we have 'jiffies = jiffies_64;' in vmlinux.lds.S. The jiffies isn't in any section. In kernel build, there is warning saying jiffies is an absolute address and can't be relocatable. At runtime, jiffies will have virtual address 0. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Lu Hongjiu<hongjiu.lu@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <1295312269.1949.725.camel@sli10-conroe> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index bf470075518..b34ab80fddd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -34,11 +34,9 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT(CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT, CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT, CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
ENTRY(phys_startup_32)
-jiffies = jiffies_64;
#else
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64)
ENTRY(phys_startup_64)
-jiffies_64 = jiffies;
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)
@@ -142,6 +140,15 @@ SECTIONS
CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
DATA_DATA
+ /*
+ * Workaround a binutils (2.20.51.0.12 to 2.21.51.0.3) bug.
+ * This makes jiffies relocatable in such binutils
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+ jiffies = jiffies_64;
+#else
+ jiffies_64 = jiffies;
+#endif
CONSTRUCTORS
/* rarely changed data like cpu maps */