Revert "x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils"

This reverts commit 86b1e8dd83cb ("x86: Make relocatable kernel work with
new binutils").

Markus Trippelsdorf reported a boot failure caused by this patch.

The real solution to the original patch will likely involve an
arch-generic solution to define an overlaid jiffies_64 and jiffies
variables.

Until that's done and tested on all architectures revert this commit to
solve the regression.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D36A759.60704@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index b34ab80..bf47007 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT(CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT, CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT, CONFIG_OUTPUT_FORMAT)
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
 ENTRY(phys_startup_32)
+jiffies = jiffies_64;
 #else
 OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64)
 ENTRY(phys_startup_64)
+jiffies_64 = jiffies;
 #endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA)
@@ -140,15 +142,6 @@ SECTIONS
                CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 
                DATA_DATA
-               /*
-                * Workaround a binutils (2.20.51.0.12 to 2.21.51.0.3) bug.
-                * This makes jiffies relocatable in such binutils
-                */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-               jiffies = jiffies_64;
-#else
-               jiffies_64 = jiffies;
-#endif
                CONSTRUCTORS
 
                /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */