[PATCH powerpc] use _GLOBAL_TOC for memmove

Li Zhong zhong at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jul 21 19:55:13 EST 2014


memmove may be called from module code copy_pages(btrfs), and it may
call memcpy, which may call back to C code, so it needs to use
_GLOBAL_TOC to set up r2 correctly. 

This fixes following error when I tried to boot an le guest:

Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000073f97210]
    pc: c000000000015004: enable_kernel_altivec+0x24/0x80
    lr: c000000000058fbc: enter_vmx_copy+0x3c/0x60
    sp: c000000073f97490
   msr: 8000000002009033
   dar: d000000001d50170
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc0000000734c0000
  paca    = 0xc00000000fff0000	 softe: 0	 irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 815, comm = mktemp
enter ? for help
[c000000073f974f0] c000000000058fbc enter_vmx_copy+0x3c/0x60
[c000000073f97510] c000000000057d34 memcpy_power7+0x274/0x840
[c000000073f97610] d000000001c3179c copy_pages+0xfc/0x110 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97660] d000000001c3c248 memcpy_extent_buffer+0xe8/0x160 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97700] d000000001be4be8 setup_items_for_insert+0x208/0x4a0 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97820] d000000001be50b4 btrfs_insert_empty_items+0xf4/0x140 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97890] d000000001bfed30 insert_with_overflow+0x70/0x180 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97900] d000000001bff174 btrfs_insert_dir_item+0x114/0x2f0 [btrfs]
[c000000073f979a0] d000000001c1f92c btrfs_add_link+0x10c/0x370 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97a40] d000000001c20e94 btrfs_create+0x204/0x270 [btrfs]
[c000000073f97b00] c00000000026d438 vfs_create+0x178/0x210
[c000000073f97b50] c000000000270a70 do_last+0x9f0/0xe90
[c000000073f97c20] c000000000271010 path_openat+0x100/0x810
[c000000073f97ce0] c000000000272ea8 do_filp_open+0x58/0xd0
[c000000073f97dc0] c00000000025ade8 do_sys_open+0x1b8/0x300
[c000000073f97e30] c00000000000a008 syscall_exit+0x0/0x7c
--- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00003fffaabe2854

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S b/arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S
index 0738f96..43435c6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/mem_64.S
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ _GLOBAL(memset)
 	stb	r4,0(r6)
 	blr
 
-_GLOBAL(memmove)
+_GLOBAL_TOC(memmove)
 	cmplw	0,r3,r4
 	bgt	backwards_memcpy
 	b	memcpy




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