summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2006-10-20 11:47:19 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-10-25 11:54:13 +1000
commit21c4ff80cba5e24932f3ef79c8482c0491630b2b (patch)
treedf44027a8f419057039f1709371b85cd57b52804 /arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
parent0909c8c2d547e45ca50e2492b08ec93a37b35237 (diff)
[POWERPC] Support feature fixups in modules
This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader. It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it would warn when used in .init.text). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c39
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
index 92f4e5f64f0..e2c3c6a85f3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/cache.h>
+#include "setup.h"
+
#if 0
#define DEBUGP printk
#else
@@ -269,33 +271,50 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs,
return 0;
}
+static const Elf_Shdr *find_section(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
+ const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ char *secstrings;
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ secstrings = (char *)hdr + sechdrs[hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;
+ for (i = 1; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++)
+ if (strcmp(secstrings+sechdrs[i].sh_name, name) == 0)
+ return &sechdrs[i];
+ return NULL;
+}
+
int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
struct module *me)
{
- char *secstrings;
- unsigned int i;
+ const Elf_Shdr *sect;
me->arch.bug_table = NULL;
me->arch.num_bugs = 0;
/* Find the __bug_table section, if present */
- secstrings = (char *)hdr + sechdrs[hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;
- for (i = 1; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++) {
- if (strcmp(secstrings+sechdrs[i].sh_name, "__bug_table"))
- continue;
- me->arch.bug_table = (void *) sechdrs[i].sh_addr;
- me->arch.num_bugs = sechdrs[i].sh_size / sizeof(struct bug_entry);
- break;
+ sect = find_section(hdr, sechdrs, "__bug_table");
+ if (sect != NULL) {
+ me->arch.bug_table = (void *) sect->sh_addr;
+ me->arch.num_bugs = sect->sh_size / sizeof(struct bug_entry);
}
- /*
+ /*
* Strictly speaking this should have a spinlock to protect against
* traversals, but since we only traverse on BUG()s, a spinlock
* could potentially lead to deadlock and thus be counter-productive.
*/
list_add(&me->arch.bug_list, &module_bug_list);
+ /* Apply feature fixups */
+ sect = find_section(hdr, sechdrs, "__ftr_fixup");
+ if (sect != NULL)
+ do_feature_fixups(cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features,
+ (void *)sect->sh_addr,
+ (void *)sect->sh_addr + sect->sh_size);
+
return 0;
}