[PATCH 4/6] Add ppc_function_entry() which gets the entry point for a function

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu May 29 16:20:59 EST 2008


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 at ellerman.id.au>
---
 include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h b/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h
index 41ecae8..0213a48 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);
@@ -23,4 +25,18 @@ unsigned int create_branch(unsigned long addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
 void patch_branch(unsigned long addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
 void patch_instruction(unsigned long 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 */
-- 
1.5.5




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