powerpc: Add ppc_function_entry() which gets the entry point for a function
authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:32:28 +0000 (11:32 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:28:20 +0000 (11:28 +1000)
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@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h

index fdb187c..a45a7ff 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
@@ -24,4 +26,18 @@ unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
 void patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
 void patch_instruction(unsigned int *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 */