[PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu May 27 00:59:30 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:38 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> When we build with ftrace enabled its possible that loadcam_entry would
> have used the stack pointer (even though the code doesn't need it).  We
> call loadcam_entry in __secondary_start before the stack is setup.  To
> ensure that loadcam_entry doesn't use the stack pointer the easiest
> solution is to just have it in asm code.

You could move it to a separate file and have that not built with the
ftrace options (-pg etc.) - but maybe that's not easier.

cheers

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