(2014/07/02 13:41), Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 11:21 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> (2014/06/30 20:36), Michael Ellerman wrote: >>> On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 12:14 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >>>> Ping? :) >>> >>> Yeah sorry. I started looking at this and got dragged into another mess. >>> >>> You seem to have duplicated the functionality of arch_deref_entry_point(), >>> which was also added for kprobes, and for the same reason - ie. because some >>> arches have strange function pointers. Is there some reason you can't use >>> it? >> >> Ah, right! Hmm, it seems some more work to update it. but basically, we can >> do. >> BTW, is there any other users who need to access the actual function entry >> (for >> kallsyms case)? > > Not that I'm aware of. We have had function descriptors on 64-bit powerpc for > ever, so in theory by now we should have already found any cases where we need > that sort of wrapper.
OK, then I'll update this patch to use arch_deref_entry_point(), and add additional patch which update to support PPC64 ABIv2. Thank you! -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
