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Benjamin Herrenschmidt 0909c8c2d5 [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's
This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
The main issue was that the construct:

        .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)

will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.

The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:

1:
        .long   label - 1b

That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
of the kernel as well.

Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:

        .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)

That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
using a modified macro that generates:

        .long   0xffffffff
        .llong  label - 1b

Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
other way around).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:07 +10:00
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acpi ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAIT 2006-10-14 00:35:39 -04:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-arm [ARM] 3890/1: [Jornada7xx] Addition of MCU commands into jornada720.h 2006-10-14 16:02:00 +01:00
asm-arm26 fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] IRQ: Fix AVR32 breakage 2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] FRV: Use the correct preemption primitives in kmap_atomic() and co 2006-10-16 08:32:29 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] x86-64: Speed up dwarf2 unwinder 2006-10-21 18:37:01 +02:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-i386 ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAIT 2006-10-14 00:35:39 -04:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] remove unused PAL_CALL_IC_OFF 2006-10-17 14:53:52 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] sun3_ioremap() prototype 2006-10-15 11:00:58 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: sync syscalls with m68k 2006-10-13 08:35:39 -07:00
asm-mips [MIPS] Fix aliasing bug in copy_to_user_page / copy_from_user_page 2006-10-21 23:17:35 +01:00
asm-parisc [PARISC] pdc_init no longer exists 2006-10-07 05:22:30 -06:00
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's 2006-10-25 11:54:07 +10:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-s390 [S390] Fix pte type checking. 2006-10-18 18:30:51 +02:00
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asm-sh64 [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-sparc [SPARC]: Clean up asm-sparc/elf.h pollution in userspace. 2006-10-20 00:29:33 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: remove some leftover PPC code 2006-10-20 10:26:36 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86-64: Revert timer routing behaviour back to 2.6.16 state 2006-10-21 18:37:03 +02:00
asm-xtensa fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
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video fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
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