Backport of this patch here

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg270684.html

Needed for 2.6.24 to compile with gcc 4.3
Index: linux-2.6.24/include/linux/time.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24.orig/include/linux/time.h	2008-05-28 15:39:46.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.24/include/linux/time.h	2008-05-28 15:40:48.000000000 -0700
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@
 {
 	ns += a->tv_nsec;
 	while(unlikely(ns >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
+		/* The following asm() prevents the compiler from
+		* optimising this loop into a modulo operation.  */
+		asm("" : "+r"(ns));
+
 		ns -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
 		a->tv_sec++;
 	}