Patch "frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
frv-declare-jiffies-to-be-located-in-the-.data-section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:16 -0700
Subject: frv: declare jiffies to be located in the .data section

From: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>

commit 60b0a8c3d2480f3b57282b47b7cae7ee71c48635 upstream.

Commit 7c30f352c852 ("jiffies.h: declare jiffies and jiffies_64 with ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp") removed a section specification from the jiffies declaration that caused conflicts on some platforms.

Unfortunately this change broke the build for frv:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq': (.text+0x6460): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol
`jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq': (.text+0x6574): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against symbol
`jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
kernel/built-in.o: In function `pwq_activate_delayed_work': workqueue.c:(.text+0x15b9c): relocation truncated to fit: R_FRV_GPREL12 against
symbol `jiffies' defined in *ABS* section in .tmp_vmlinux1
...

Add __jiffy_arch_data to the declaration of jiffies and use it on frv to include the section specification. For all other platforms __jiffy_arch_data (currently) has no effect.

---
 arch/frv/include/asm/timex.h |    6 ++++++
 include/linux/jiffies.h      |    6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -16,5 +16,11 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void)
 #define vxtime_lock()		do {} while (0)
 #define vxtime_unlock()		do {} while (0)
 
+/* This attribute is used in include/linux/jiffies.h alongside with
+ * __cacheline_aligned_in_smp. It is assumed that __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
+ * for frv does not contain another section specification.
+ */
+#define __jiffy_arch_data	__attribute__((__section__(".data")))
+
 #endif
 

@@ -64,13 +64,17 @@ extern int register_refined_jiffies(long
 /* TICK_USEC is the time between ticks in usec assuming fake USER_HZ */
 #define TICK_USEC ((1000000UL + USER_HZ/2) / USER_HZ)
 
+#ifndef __jiffy_arch_data
+#define __jiffy_arch_data
+#endif
+
 /*
  * The 64-bit value is not atomic - you MUST NOT read it
  * without sampling the sequence number in jiffies_lock.
  * get_jiffies_64() will do this for you as appropriate.
  */
 extern u64 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp jiffies_64;
-extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp jiffies;
+extern unsigned long volatile __cacheline_aligned_in_smp __jiffy_arch_data jiffies;
 
 #if (BITS_PER_LONG < 64)
 u64 get_jiffies_64(void);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/dm-ioctl-remove-double-parentheses.patch queue-4.4/genirq-use-cpumask_available-for-check-of-cpumask-variable.patch queue-4.4/fs-compat-remove-warning-from-compatible_ioctl.patch queue-4.4/jiffies.h-declare-jiffies-and-jiffies_64-with-____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.patch queue-4.4/selinux-remove-unnecessary-check-of-array-base-in-selinux_set_mapping.patch queue-4.4/pci-make-pci_rom_address_mask-a-32-bit-constant.patch queue-4.4/frv-declare-jiffies-to-be-located-in-the-.data-section.patch queue-4.4/cpumask-add-helper-cpumask_available.patch