linux-kernel - [PATCH 18/18] powerpc: Fix jiffies variable on little endian

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Message-Id: <1285916771-18033-19-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri,  1 Oct 2010 17:06:11 +1000
From:	"Ian Munsie" <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>,
	Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@...atech.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: [PATCH 18/18] powerpc: Fix jiffies variable on little endian

From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

The vmlinux linker script sets the jiffies variable to the low word of
the jiffies_64 variable. This patch corrects which word is used on
little endian.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 8a0deef..7a9010f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common64)
 jiffies = jiffies_64;
 #else
 OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common)
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+jiffies = jiffies_64;
+#else
 jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
 #endif
+#endif
 SECTIONS
 {
 	. = 0;
-- 
1.7.1

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