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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2008-06-24 11:32:28 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-07-01 11:28:20 +1000
commit07630a37beefe8e4401c602f04e3e5bcbba50b31 (patch)
tree7e7c7b76abe634eeebb1b161ebfbd18638af2149 /include/asm-powerpc
parent053a858efa46c9ab86363b271374ec02ad2af753 (diff)
powerpc: Add ppc_function_entry() which gets the entry point for a function
Because function pointers point to different things on 32-bit vs 64-bit, add a macro that deals with dereferencing the OPD on 64-bit. The soon to be merged ftrace wants this, as well as other code I am working on. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h b/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
index fdb187cbc40..a45a7ff7872 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
+#include <asm/types.h>
+
/* Flags for create_branch:
* "b" == create_branch(addr, target, 0);
* "ba" == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE);
@@ -24,4 +26,18 @@ unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
void patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
void patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr);
+static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+ /*
+ * On PPC64 the function pointer actually points to the function's
+ * descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the address
+ * of the function text.
+ */
+ return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+#else
+ return (unsigned long)func;
+#endif
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_H */