x86_64/vdso: Remove jiffies from the vvar page

I think that the jiffies vvar was once used for the vgetcpu cache. That code is long gone, so let's just make jiffies be a normal variable. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fcfee6f8749af14d96373a9e2656354ad0b95499.1411494540.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
git-mirror · Oct 28, 2014 · 61a492f · 61a492f
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ extern char __vvar_page;
 
 /* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
 
-DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
 DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode)
 DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/time.c b/arch/x86/kernel/time.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #include <asm/time.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-__visible DEFINE_VVAR(volatile unsigned long, jiffies) = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
+__visible volatile unsigned long jiffies __cacheline_aligned = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
 #endif
 
 unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vgetcpu.c
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/getcpu.h>
-#include <linux/jiffies.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
 #include <asm/vsyscall.h>
 #include <asm/vgtod.h>