* trivial boot_head.S
@ 2007-08-09 22:54 David Mosberger-Tang
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From: David Mosberger-Tang @ 2007-08-09 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Attached is a trivial patch that makes stack-unwinding stop at the
last frame of the bootloader.
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[IA64] Add a dummy nop at the end of _start() to maintain the invariant that
the return-pointer (rp) always point to the calling function. This
makes unwinding stop at the last frame, as it should.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <dmosberger@gmail.com>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/boot_head.S b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/boot_head.S
index a9bd71a..8808565 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/boot_head.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/boot_head.S
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ GLOBAL_ENTRY(_start)
movl sp = stack_mem+16384-16
bsw.1
br.call.sptk.many rp=start_bootloader
+0: nop 0 /* dummy nop to make unwinding work */
END(_start)
/*
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