[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64: Correct comment on LOAD_HANDLER()

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jul 26 15:29:29 AEST 2016


The comment for LOAD_HANDLER() was wrong. The part about kdump has not
been true since 1f6a93e4c35e ("powerpc: Make it possible to move the
interrupt handlers away from the kernel").

Describe how it currently works, and combine the two separate comments
into one.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
index 93ae809fe5ea..4ff3e2f16b5d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@
 
 /*
  * We're short on space and time in the exception prolog, so we can't
- * use the normal SET_REG_IMMEDIATE macro. Normally we just need the
- * low halfword of the address, but for Kdump we need the whole low
- * word.
+ * use the normal LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE macro to load the address of label.
+ * Instead we get the base of the kernel from paca->kernelbase and or in the low
+ * part of label. This requires that the label be within 64KB of kernelbase, and
+ * that kernelbase be 64K aligned.
  */
 #define LOAD_HANDLER(reg, label)					\
-	/* Handlers must be within 64K of kbase, which must be 64k aligned */ \
 	ori	reg,reg,(label)-_stext;	/* virt addr of handler ... */
 
 /* Exception register prefixes */
-- 
2.7.4



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