linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 01/10] x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

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Message-Id: <0ea062d74a64a11c587deeee4ca7e9c396a0244f.1306724657.git.luto@mit.edu>
Date:	Sun, 29 May 2011 23:48:38 -0400
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH v2 01/10] x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

It's declared __attribute__((aligned(16)) but it's explicitly not
aligned.  This is probably harmless but it's a but embarrassing.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
index 341b355..a4eaca4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 /* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
 
 DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
-DECLARE_VVAR(8, int, vgetcpu_mode)
+DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode)
 DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
 
 #undef DECLARE_VVAR
-- 
1.7.5.1

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