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authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000
committerDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>2009-01-02 13:17:13 +0000
commitb21a207141d83a06abc5f492b80204602e02ca44 (patch)
treef0152cde543008c72d7eb5c12c18095ad92785e6 /kernel/extable.c
parent3af373021fa32f8f787bfbdcc1a9277a287bde4e (diff)
parentb58602a4bac012b5f4fc12fe6b46ab237b610d5d (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
Conflicts: drivers/uwb/wlp/eda.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/extable.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/extable.c21
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index a26cb2e1702..e136ed8d82b 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr)
return e;
}
-int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
+__notrace_funcgraph int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
addr <= (unsigned long)_etext)
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
return 0;
}
-int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
+__notrace_funcgraph int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
{
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
@@ -66,3 +67,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
return 1;
return module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers
+ * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the
+ * real function address. As a result, to find if a function
+ * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some
+ * special dereferencing first.
+ */
+int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr)
+{
+ unsigned long addr;
+ addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr);
+ if (core_kernel_text(addr))
+ return 1;
+ return module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
+}