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powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Thu, 9 Nov 2017 23:48:27 +0000 (08:48 +0900)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tue, 9 Jan 2018 09:45:37 +0000 (10:45 +0100)
commit5633e85b2c3133051d8201b586ba195f1733096b
tree621b75567ea1ce41250785507adb4e734a4ebbf6
parent8e30788816d4d4a991136cfe9ba8715d62f31d80
powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference

We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

For pointers that belong to the kernel
-  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
   .opd section address range;

-  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
   will dereference only function pointers that are within
   [__start_opd, __end_opd);

For pointers that belong to a module
-  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
   function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
   pointers that are within [module->opd.start, module->opd.end).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S