Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix jiffies ODR violation

From: Bob Haarman
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 19:48:16 EST


On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 08:17:42PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Instead, we can avoid the ODR violation by matching other arch's by
> > defining jiffies only by linker script. For -fno-semantic-interposition
> > + Full LTO, there is no longer a global definition of jiffies for the
> > compiler to produce a local symbol which the linker script won't ensure
> > aliases to jiffies_64.
>
> I guess it was an historical accident.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you, Andi. Do any other reviewers have comments?

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