Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/20/2011 11:18 PM, Li, Shaohua wrote:
>  		*(.jiffies)
>  	}
>  	jiffies = VVIRT(.jiffies);
> +	jiffies_64 = jiffies;
>  

OK, this is just messed up.  If we need jiffies in a special section
then we should declare it as such (see __jiffy_data), but it's not clear
to me why we would.  This seems like hack upon hack.

However, I suspect we may want to put jiffies into a .S file, and that
.S file needs to take into account architectures which need underscore
prefixes (which really sucks to have in ELF and is a major fail on those
ABI designers...)

	-hpa
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