linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 29/31] x86/time: Correct the attribute on jiffies definition

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Date:   Thu,  8 Nov 2018 13:52:53 -0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 29/31] x86/time: Correct the attribute on jiffies definition

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>

commit 53c13ba8ed39e89f21a0b98f4c8a241bb44e483d upstream.

Clang warns that the declaration of jiffies in include/linux/jiffies.h
doesn't match the definition in arch/x86/time/kernel.c:

arch/x86/kernel/time.c:29:42: warning: section does not match previous declaration [-Wsection]
__visible volatile unsigned long jiffies __cacheline_aligned = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
                                         ^
./include/linux/cache.h:49:4: note: expanded from macro '__cacheline_aligned'
                 __section__(".data..cacheline_aligned")))
                 ^
./include/linux/jiffies.h:81:31: note: previous attribute is here
extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp __jiffy_arch_data jiffies;
                              ^
./arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h:20:2: note: expanded from macro '__cacheline_aligned_in_smp'
        __page_aligned_data
        ^
./include/linux/linkage.h:39:29: note: expanded from macro '__page_aligned_data'
#define __page_aligned_data     __section(.data..page_aligned) __aligned(PAGE_SIZE)
                                ^
./include/linux/compiler_attributes.h:233:56: note: expanded from macro '__section'
#define __section(S)                    __attribute__((__section__(#S)))
                                                       ^
1 warning generated.

The declaration was changed in commit 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare
jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp") but wasn't
updated here. Make them match so Clang no longer warns.

Fixes: 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181013005311.28617-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/time.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/time.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #include <asm/time.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-__visible volatile unsigned long jiffies __cacheline_aligned = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
+__visible volatile unsigned long jiffies __cacheline_aligned_in_smp = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
 #endif
 
 unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs)