On Thu, 2016-15-09 at 00:40:20 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Currently the _GLOBAL() macro unilaterally sets the assembler section to > ".text" at the start of the macro. This is rude as the caller may be > using a different section. > > So let the caller decide which section to emit the code into. On big > endian we do need to switch to the ".opd" section to emit the OPD, but > do that with pushsection/popsection, thereby leaving the original > section intact. > > The only place I could find where this requires changes to the code is > in misc_32.S, where we need to switch back to ".text" after > flush_icache_range() which is in ".kprobes.text". > > I verified that the order of all entries in System.map is unchanged > after this patch. The actual addresses shift around slightly so you > can't just diff the System.map. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bea2dccccfd47ef3f8612f1265 cheers
