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Michael Ellerman 31278b17a0 powerpc/modules: Never restore r2 for a mprofile-kernel style mcount() call
In the module loader we process relocations, and for long jumps we
generate trampolines (aka stubs). At the call site for one of these
trampolines we usually need to generate a load instruction to restore
the TOC pointer into r2.

There is one exception however, which is calls to mcount() using the
mprofile-kernel ABI, they handle the TOC inside the stub, and so for
them we do not generate a TOC load.

The bug is in how the code in restore_r2() decides if it needs to
generate the TOC load. It does so by looking for a nop following the
branch, and if it sees a nop, it replaces it with the load. In general
the compiler has no reason to generate a nop following the mcount()
call and so that check works OK.

However if we combine a jump label at the start of a function, with an
early return, such that GCC applies the shrink-wrapping optimisation, we
can then end up with an mcount call followed immediately by a nop.
However the nop is not there for a TOC load, it is for the jump label.

That confuses restore_r2() into replacing the jump label nop with a TOC
load, which in turn confuses ftrace into replacing the mcount call with
a b +8 (fixed in the previous commit). The end result is we jump over
the jump label, which if it was supposed to return means we incorrectly
run the body of the function.

We have seen this in practice with some yet-to-be-merged patches that
use jump labels more extensively.

The fix is relatively simple, in restore_r2() we check for an
mprofile-kernel style mcount() call first, before looking for the
presence of a nop.

Fixes: 153086644f ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-07-21 20:10:42 +10:00
Michael Ellerman f55d966536 powerpc: Define and use PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2/v1
We're approaching 20 locations where we need to check for ELF ABI v2.
That's fine, except the logic is a bit awkward, because we have to check
that _CALL_ELF is defined and then what its value is.

So check it once in asm/types.h and define PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2 when ELF ABI
v2 is detected.

We also have a few places where what we're really trying to check is
that we are using the 64-bit v1 ABI, ie. function descriptors. So also
add a #define for that, which simplifies several checks.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-14 13:58:27 +10:00
Michael Ellerman d8c0282f4d Merge branch 'topic/mprofile-kernel' into next
Merge the ftrace changes to support -mprofile-kernel on ppc64le. This is
a prerequisite for live patching, the support for which will be merged
via the livepatch tree based on this topic branch.
2016-03-11 11:20:15 +11:00
Torsten Duwe 153086644f powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI
The gcc switch -mprofile-kernel defines a new ABI for calling _mcount()
very early in the function with minimal overhead.

Although mprofile-kernel has been available since GCC 3.4, there were
bugs which were only fixed recently. Currently it is known to work in
GCC 4.9, 5 and 6.

Additionally there are two possible code sequences generated by the
flag, the first uses mflr/std/bl and the second is optimised to omit the
std. Currently only gcc 6 has the optimised sequence. This patch
supports both sequences.

Initial work started by Vojtech Pavlik, used with permission.

Key changes:
 - rework _mcount() to work for both the old and new ABIs.
 - implement new versions of ftrace_caller() and ftrace_graph_caller()
   which deal with the new ABI.
 - updates to __ftrace_make_nop() to recognise the new mcount calling
   sequence.
 - updates to __ftrace_make_call() to recognise the nop'ed sequence.
 - implement ftrace_modify_call().
 - updates to the module loader to surpress the toc save in the module
   stub when calling mcount with the new ABI.

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-07 14:53:55 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 336a7b5dd8 powerpc/module: Create a special stub for ftrace_caller()
In order to support the new -mprofile-kernel ABI, we need to be able to
call from the module back to ftrace_caller() (in the kernel) without
using the module's r2. That is because the function in this module which
is calling ftrace_caller() may not have setup r2, if it doesn't
otherwise need it (ie. it accesses no globals).

To make that work we add a new stub which is used for calling
ftrace_caller(), which uses the kernel toc instead of the module toc.

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-07 14:53:54 +11:00
Michael Ellerman f17c4e01e9 powerpc/module: Mark module stubs with a magic value
When a module is loaded, calls out to the kernel go via a stub which is
generated at runtime. One of these stubs is used to call _mcount(),
which is the default target of tracing calls generated by the compiler
with -pg.

If dynamic ftrace is enabled (which it typically is), another stub is
used to call ftrace_caller(), which is the target of tracing calls when
ftrace is actually active.

ftrace then wants to disable the calls to _mcount() at module startup,
and enable/disable the calls to ftrace_caller() when enabling/disabling
tracing - all of these it does by patching the code.

As part of that code patching, the ftrace code wants to confirm that the
branch it is about to modify, is in fact a call to a module stub which
calls _mcount() or ftrace_caller().

Currently it does that by inspecting the instructions and confirming
they are what it expects. Although that works, the code to do it is
pretty intricate because it requires lots of knowledge about the exact
format of the stub.

We can make that process easier by marking the generated stubs with a
magic value, and then looking for that magic value. Altough this is not
as rigorous as the current method, I believe it is sufficient in
practice.

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-07 14:53:53 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 136cd3450a powerpc/module: Only try to generate the ftrace_caller() stub once
Currently we generate the module stub for ftrace_caller() at the bottom
of apply_relocate_add(). However apply_relocate_add() is potentially
called more than once per module, which means we will try to generate
the ftrace_caller() stub multiple times.

Although the current code deals with that correctly, ie. it only
generates a stub the first time, it would be clearer to only try to
generate the stub once.

Note also on first reading it may appear that we generate a different
stub for each section that requires relocation, but that is not the
case. The code in stub_for_addr() that searches for an existing stub
uses sechdrs[me->arch.stubs_section], ie. the single stub section for
this module.

A cleaner approach is to only generate the ftrace_caller() stub once,
from module_finalize(). Although the original code didn't check to see
if the stub was actually generated correctly, it seems prudent to add a
check, so do that. And an additional benefit is we can clean the ifdefs
up a little.

Finally we must propagate the const'ness of some of the pointers passed
to module_finalize(), but that is also an improvement.

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-03-07 14:53:53 +11:00
Andreas Schwab f15838e9ca powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26
Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections.  But
dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify
unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name.  To
remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer
into the STRTAB section instead.

Backport to all stables to avoid breakage when people update their
binutils - mpe.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-02-08 22:01:46 +11:00
Alan Modra c153693d7e powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling
PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-01-21 14:10:56 +11:00
Ulrich Weigand a61674bdfc powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations
GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le.  This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
	addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
	addi  r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
	.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

	.quad .TOC.-func
func:
	.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
	ld    r2, -8(r12)
	add   r2, r2, r12
	.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too.  This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-01-13 12:37:05 +11:00
Anton Blanchard c7d1f6afe0 powerpc: Use pr_fmt in module loader code
Use pr_fmt to give some context to the error messages in the
module code, and convert open coded debug printk to pr_debug.

Use pr_err for error messages.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2014-10-02 17:33:54 +10:00
Laurent Dufour c2cbcf533a powerpc/module: Fix TOC symbol CRC
The commit 71ec7c55ed introduced the magic symbol ".TOC." for ELFv2 ABI.
This symbol is built manually and has no CRC value computed. A zero value
is put in the CRC section to avoid modpost complaining about a missing CRC.
Unfortunately, this breaks the kernel module loading when the kernel is
relocated (kdump case for instance) because of the relocation applied to
the kcrctab values.

This patch compute a CRC value for the TOC symbol which will match the one
compute by the kernel when it is relocated - aka '0 - relocate_start' done in
maybe_relocated called by check_version (module.c).

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-06-25 13:10:48 +10:00
Rusty Russell 872aa779bc powerpc/module: Fix stubs for BE
A simple patch which was supposed to swap r12 and r11 also
inexplicably changed the offset by two bytes.  This instruction
(to load r2) isn't used in LE, so it wasn't noticed.

Fixes: b1ce369e82 ("powerpc: modules: use r12 for stub jump address.)
Reported-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-05-20 10:56:01 +10:00
Anton Blanchard dd9fa16250 powerpc/modules: Create module_trampoline_target()
ftrace has way too much knowledge of our kernel module trampoline
layout hidden inside it. Create module_trampoline_target() that gives
the target address of a kernel module trampoline.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2014-04-23 10:05:34 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 83775b8566 powerpc/modules: Create is_module_trampoline()
ftrace has way too much knowledge of our kernel module trampoline
layout hidden inside it. Create is_module_trampoline() that can
abstract this away inside the module loader code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2014-04-23 10:05:34 +10:00
Rusty Russell 008d7a914e powerpc: modules: implement stubs for ELFv2 ABI.
ELFv2 doesn't use function descriptors, because it doesn't need to
load a new r2 when calling into a function.  On the other hand, you're
supposed to use a local entry point for R_PPC_REL24 branches.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:32 +10:00
Rusty Russell 5c729a115e powerpc: modules: skip r2 setup for ELFv2
ELFv2 doesn't need to set up r2 when calling a function.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell b1ce369e82 powerpc: modules: use r12 for stub jump address.
In ELFv2, r12 is supposed to equal to PC on entry to a function.
Our stubs use r11, so change swap that with r12.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:31 +10:00
Rusty Russell d2fae54803 powerpc: modules: change r2 save/restore offset for ELFv2 ABI.
ELFv2 uses a different stack offset (24 vs 40) to save r2.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:30 +10:00
Rusty Russell 5b12c5c694 powerpc: modules: comment about de-dotifying symbols when using the ELFv2 ABI.
ELFv2 doesn't use function descriptors, so we don't expect symbols to
start with ".".  But because depmod and modpost strip ".", and we have
the special symbol ".TOC.", we still need to do it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:30 +10:00
Rusty Russell 0906584a0a powerpc: Handle new ELFv2 module relocations
The new ELF ABI tends to use R_PPC64_REL16_LO and R_PPC64_REL16_HA
relocations (PC-relative), so implement them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:29 +10:00
Rusty Russell 4edebbeae3 powerpc: Fix up TOC. for modules.
The kernel resolved the '.TOC.' to a fake symbol, so we need to fix it up
to point to our .toc section plus 0x8000.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:29 +10:00
Rusty Russell d247da0a8e powerpc: modules implement R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:28 +10:00
Rusty Russell 0e60e46e2a powerpc: make module stub code endian independent
By representing them as words, rather than chars, we can avoid
endian ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-04-23 10:05:27 +10:00
Robert Jennings b88c4767d9 powerpc: Move local setup.h declarations to arch includes
Move the few declarations from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup.h
into arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h.  This resolves a
sparse warning for arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c which defines
do_init_bootmem() but can't include the setup.h header
in the prior path.

Resolves:
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:998:13:
        warning: symbol 'do_init_bootmem' was not declared.
                 Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Robert C Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-30 16:00:31 +11:00
Eugene Surovegin fed8393ef9 powerpc: Make kernel module helper endian-safe.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 16:53:22 +11:00
Anton Blanchard 1fbe9cf259 powerpc: Build kernel with -mcmodel=medium
Finally remove the two level TOC and build with -mcmodel=medium.

Unfortunately we can't build modules with -mcmodel=medium due to
the tricks the kernel module loader plays with percpu data:

# -mcmodel=medium breaks modules because it uses 32bit offsets from
# the TOC pointer to create pointers where possible. Pointers into the
# percpu data area are created by this method.
#
# The kernel module loader relocates the percpu data section from the
# original location (starting with 0xd...) to somewhere in the base
# kernel percpu data space (starting with 0xc...). We need a full
# 64bit relocation for this to work, hence -mcmodel=large.

On older kernels we fall back to the two level TOC (-mminimal-toc)

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-01-10 17:00:31 +11:00
Jonas Bonn 66574cc054 modules: make arch's use default loader hooks
This patch removes all the module loader hook implementations in the
architecture specific code where the functionality is the same as that
now provided by the recently added default hooks.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-07-24 22:06:04 +09:30
Kumar Gala 16c57b3620 powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-23 10:48:56 +11:00
Steven Rostedt f48cb8b48b powerpc/ppc64: ftrace, handle module trampolines for dyn ftrace
Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace

This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.

Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:

  - fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
  - fix to is_bl_op compare.

Thanks to Milton Miller for:

  - finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
    instead that I use a branch 8 forward.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-20 10:52:28 -08:00
James Bottomley 2d291e9027 Fix compile failure with non modular builds
Commit deac93df26 ("lib: Correct printk
%pF to work on all architectures") broke the non modular builds by
moving an essential function into modules.c.  Fix this by moving it
out again and into asm/sections.h as an inline.  To do this, the
definition of struct ppc64_opd_entry has been lifted out of modules.c
and put in asm/elf.h where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-09-17 09:14:42 -07:00
James Bottomley deac93df26 lib: Correct printk %pF to work on all architectures
It was introduced by "vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer
formats" in commit 0fe1ef24f7.  However,
the current way its coded doesn't work on parisc64.  For two reasons: 1)
parisc isn't in the #ifdef and 2) parisc has a different format for
function descriptors

Make dereference_function_descriptor() more accommodating by allowing
architecture overrides.  I put the three overrides (for parisc64, ppc64
and ia64) in arch/kernel/module.c because that's where the kernel
internal linker which knows how to deal with function descriptors sits.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-09 11:51:15 -07:00
Michael Ellerman b7bcda631e powerpc: Add PPC_NOP_INSTR, a hash define for the preferred nop instruction
A bunch of code has hard-coded the value for a "nop" instruction, it
would be nice to have a #define for it.

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>
2008-07-01 11:28:23 +10:00
Kumar Gala f0c426bc35 powerpc: Move common module code into its own file
Refactor common code between ppc32 and ppc64 module handling into a
shared filed.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:05 +10:00
Emil Medve eda09fbdcd [POWERPC] Optimize counting distinct entries in the relocation sections
When a module has relocation sections with tens of thousands of
entries, counting the distinct/unique entries only (i.e. no
duplicates) at load time can take tens of seconds and up to minutes.
The sore point is the count_relocs() function which is called as part
of the architecture specific module loading processing path:

	-> load_module()			generic
	   -> module_frob_arch_sections()	arch specific
	      -> get_plt_size()		32-bit
	      -> get_stubs_size()	64-bit
		 -> count_relocs()

Here count_relocs is being called to find out how many distinct
targets of R_PPC_REL24 relocations there are, since each distinct
target needs a PLT entry or a stub created for it.

The previous counting algorithm has O(n^2) complexity.  Basically two
solutions were proposed on the e-mail list: a hash based approach and
a sort based approach.

The hash based approach is the fastest (O(n)) but the has it needs
additional memory and for certain corner cases it could take lots of
memory due to the degeneration of the hash.  One such proposal was
submitted here:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-June/037641.html

The sort based approach is slower (O(n * log n + n)) but if the
sorting is done "in place" it doesn't need additional memory.
This has O(n + n * log n) complexity with no additional memory
requirements.

This commit implements the in-place sort option.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-21 15:05:58 +11:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 73c9ceab40 [POWERPC] Generic BUG for powerpc
This makes powerpc use the generic BUG machinery.  The biggest reports the
function name, since it is redundant with kallsyms, and not needed in general.

There is an overall reduction of code, since module_32/64 duplicated several
functions.

Unfortunately there's no way to tell gcc that BUG won't return, so the BUG
macro includes a goto loop.  This will generate a real jmp instruction, which
is never used.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[paulus@samba.org: remove infinite loop in BUG_ON]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-11 16:35:07 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 21c4ff80cb [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in modules
This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:13 +10:00
Alan Modra f749edae5e [PATCH] powerpc64: Fix loading of modules without a .toc section
Normally, ppc64 module .ko files contain a table-of-contents (.toc)
section, but if the module doesn't reference any static or external
data or external procedures, it is possible for gcc/binutils to
generate a .ko that doesn't have a .toc.  Currently the module
loader refuses to load such a module, since it needs the address
of the .toc section to use in relocations.

This patch fixes the problem by using the address of the .stubs
section instead, which is an acceptable substitute in this situation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28 21:04:49 +10:00
Paul Mackerras 7568cb4ef6 powerpc: Move most remaining ppc64 files over to arch/powerpc
Also deletes files in arch/ppc64 that are no longer used now that
we don't compile with ARCH=ppc64 any more.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-14 17:30:17 +11:00