[PATCH] ftrace, powerpc64: fix math to calculate offset in TOC

[Remis Lima Baima]

I have just tried the patch here and everything worked great!
Very well done.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu> wrote:
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> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
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>> Paul,
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>> I found the bug that was causing large modules to fail in setting
>> up dynamic ftrace. It wound up being a simple math error. To calculate
>> the offset in the TOC, I had used an OR, but the bottom half was
>> a signed extended short, and it should have been an addition.
>> The fix is in my tree below, as well as posted here.
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> Looks like a .29 candidate?
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>        Ingo

I agree. A functional ("out-of-the-box") dynamic-ftrace helps quite a lot ;-)


Regards,
Remis