powerpc: Create a helper for getting the kernel toc value

Move the logic to work out the kernel toc pointer into a header. This is
a good cleanup, and also means we can use it elsewhere in future.

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h
index a5e930aca804..abf5866e08c6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ static inline int in_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned long kernel_toc_addr(void)
+{
+	/* Defined by the linker, see vmlinux.lds.S */
+	extern unsigned long __toc_start;
+
+	/*
+	 * The TOC register (r2) points 32kB into the TOC, so that 64kB of
+	 * the TOC can be addressed using a single machine instruction.
+	 */
+	return (unsigned long)(&__toc_start) + 0x8000UL;
+}
+
 static inline int overlaps_interrupt_vector_text(unsigned long start,
 							unsigned long end)
 {