This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage
to the 3.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-ftrace-fix-assembly-trampoline-register-usage.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fd5a42980e1cf327b7240adf5e7b51ea41c23437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: roger blofeld <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:27:14 +0000
Subject: powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage
From: roger blofeld <[email protected]>
commit fd5a42980e1cf327b7240adf5e7b51ea41c23437 upstream.
Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12
instead of r11 with newer gcc's.
Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -245,9 +245,9 @@ __ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
/*
* On PPC32 the trampoline looks like:
- * 0x3d, 0x60, 0x00, 0x00 lis r11,sym@ha
- * 0x39, 0x6b, 0x00, 0x00 addi r11,r11,sym@l
- * 0x7d, 0x69, 0x03, 0xa6 mtctr r11
+ * 0x3d, 0x80, 0x00, 0x00 lis r12,sym@ha
+ * 0x39, 0x8c, 0x00, 0x00 addi r12,r12,sym@l
+ * 0x7d, 0x89, 0x03, 0xa6 mtctr r12
* 0x4e, 0x80, 0x04, 0x20 bctr
*/
@@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ __ftrace_make_nop(struct module *mod,
pr_devel(" %08x %08x ", jmp[0], jmp[1]);
/* verify that this is what we expect it to be */
- if (((jmp[0] & 0xffff0000) != 0x3d600000) ||
- ((jmp[1] & 0xffff0000) != 0x396b0000) ||
- (jmp[2] != 0x7d6903a6) ||
+ if (((jmp[0] & 0xffff0000) != 0x3d800000) ||
+ ((jmp[1] & 0xffff0000) != 0x398c0000) ||
+ (jmp[2] != 0x7d8903a6) ||
(jmp[3] != 0x4e800420)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Not a trampoline\n");
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.5/powerpc-ftrace-fix-assembly-trampoline-register-usage.patch
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