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x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:57:49 +0000 (08:57 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:05:33 +0000 (09:05 +0100)
commit0a153cdd1b1ca9b5ea1faf0a31f96819d1d4eff8
tree8dd49e97b8bec76b53798fe35a423dd20596603f
parent7b0b3097930b1945fb3f8ce2b1bd1d955943354e
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>
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S