H. Peter Anvin ea17e7414b x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist ... The symbol jiffies is created in the linker script as an alias to jiffies_64. Unfortunately this is done outside any section, and apparently GNU ld 2.21 doesn't carry the section with it, so we end up with an absolute symbol and therefore a broken kernel. Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the whitelist. The most disturbing bit with this discovery is that it shows that we have had multiple linker bugs in this area crossing multiple generations, and have been silently building bad kernels for some time. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524171604.0d98284f3affc643e9714470@canb.auug.org.au Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.4		2012-05-24 07:16:18 -07:00
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.gitignore	x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool	2012-05-18 19:49:40 -07:00
chkobjdump.awk	x86: Fix objdump version check in chkobjdump.awk for different formats.	2009-12-18 09:26:56 -08:00
distill.awk	x86: Show symbol name if insn decoder test failed	2009-11-17 07:16:50 +01:00
gen-insn-attr-x86.awk	x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formats	2011-12-05 14:53:21 +01:00
insn_sanity.c	x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode	2011-12-05 14:53:23 +01:00
Makefile	x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool	2012-05-18 19:49:40 -07:00
relocs.c	x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist	2012-05-24 07:16:18 -07:00
test_get_len.c	x86: Remove trailing spaces in messages	2010-02-07 17:47:51 +01:00