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Message-ID: <20110117101756.GB26819@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:17:56 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@...el.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]x86: make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
 -resend


* Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> wrote:

> @@ -142,6 +140,11 @@ SECTIONS
>  		CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
>  
>  		DATA_DATA
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> +		jiffies = jiffies_64;
> +#else
> +		jiffies_64 = jiffies;
> +#endif

I suspect this needs a comment, as to the unsuspecting reader it looks like black 
magic :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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