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| author | Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> | 2011-01-18 08:57:49 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-01-18 09:05:33 +0100 |
| commit | 86b1e8dd83cbb0fcbf3d61d2b461df8be1f528cf (patch) | |
| tree | 8dd49e97b8bec76b53798fe35a423dd20596603f /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 76d1f7bfcd5872056902c5a88b5fcd5d4d00a7a9 (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/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 |
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 */ |