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<[email protected]>
Cc: Lu Hongjiu<[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <1295312269.1949.725.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index bf4700755184e32d4b4e549bd19f4014caa46468..b34ab80fddd5988fbf653d40ea457af003fc05e9 100644 (file)
--- 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 */