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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-07-30 11:15:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-07-30 11:15:13 +0200 |
| commit | f5db340f19f14a8df9dfd22d71fba1513e9f1f7e (patch) | |
| tree | 131d3345bc987aee3c922624de816492e7f323a4 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h | |
| parent | Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-4.14-20170725' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core (diff) | |
| parent | kprobes/x86: Release insn_slot in failure path (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up latest fixes and refresh the tree
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h index abef812de7f8..5482928eea1b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h @@ -83,8 +83,16 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func) * On PPC64 ABIv1 the function pointer actually points to the * function's descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the * address of the function text. + * + * However, we may also receive pointer to an assembly symbol. To + * detect that, we first check if the function pointer we receive + * already points to kernel/module text and we only dereference it + * if it doesn't. */ - return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry; + if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)func)) + return (unsigned long)func; + else + return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry; #else return (unsigned long)func; #endif |