This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
frv-declare-jiffies-to-be-located-in-the-.data-section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 60b0a8c3d2480f3b57282b47b7cae7ee71c48635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:16 -0700
Subject: frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section
From: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 60b0a8c3d2480f3b57282b47b7cae7ee71c48635 upstream.
Commit 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with
____cacheline_aligned_in_smp") removed a section specification from the
jiffies declaration that caused conflicts on some platforms.
Unfortunately this change broke the build for frv:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq': (.text+0x6460): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol
`jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq': (.text+0x6574): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol
`jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o: In function `pwq_activate_delayed_work': workqueue.c:(.text+0x15b9c): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against
symbol `jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
...
Add __jiffy_arch_data to the declaration of jiffies and use it on frv to
include the section specification. For all other platforms
__jiffy_arch_data (currently) has no effect.
Fixes: 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516221333.177280-1-mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h | 6 ++++++
include/linux/jiffies.h | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -16,5 +16,11 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
#define vxtime_lock() do {} while (0)
#define vxtime_unlock() do {} while (0)
+/* This attribute is used in include/linux/jiffies.h alongside with
+ * __cacheline_aligned_in_smp. It is assumed that __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
+ * for frv does not contain another section specification.
+ */
+#define __jiffy_arch_data __attribute__((__section__(".data")))
+
#endif
--- a/include/linux/jiffies.h
+++ b/include/linux/jiffies.h
@@ -64,13 +64,17 @@ extern int register_refined_jiffies(long
/* TICK_USEC is the time between ticks in usec assuming fake USER_HZ */
#define TICK_USEC ((1000000UL + USER_HZ/2) / USER_HZ)
+#ifndef __jiffy_arch_data
+#define __jiffy_arch_data
+#endif
+
/*
* The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
* without sampling the sequence number in jiffies_lock.
* get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
*/
extern u64 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp jiffies_64;
-extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp jiffies;
+extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp __jiffy_arch_data jiffies;
#if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
u64 get_jiffies_64(void);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/dm-ioctl-remove-double-parentheses.patch
queue-4.4/genirq-use-cpumask_available-for-check-of-cpumask-variable.patch
queue-4.4/fs-compat-remove-warning-from-compatible_ioctl.patch
queue-4.4/jiffies.h-declare-jiffies-and-jiffies_64-with-____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.patch
queue-4.4/selinux-remove-unnecessary-check-of-array-base-in-selinux_set_mapping.patch
queue-4.4/pci-make-pci_rom_address_mask-a-32-bit-constant.patch
queue-4.4/frv-declare-jiffies-to-be-located-in-the-.data-section.patch
queue-4.4/cpumask-add-helper-cpumask_available.patch