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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 00:59:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274885970.21113.6.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274726319-4673-3-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org>

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On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:38 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> When we build with ftrace enabled its possible that loadcam_entry would
> have used the stack pointer (even though the code doesn't need it).  We
> call loadcam_entry in __secondary_start before the stack is setup.  To
> ensure that loadcam_entry doesn't use the stack pointer the easiest
> solution is to just have it in asm code.

You could move it to a separate file and have that not built with the
ftrace options (-pg etc.) - but maybe that's not easier.

cheers


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-24 18:38 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix ioremap_flags() with book3e pte definition Kumar Gala
2010-05-24 18:38 ` [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix InstructionTLBError execute permission check Kumar Gala
2010-05-24 18:38   ` [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace Kumar Gala
2010-05-26 14:59     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2010-06-02 21:59 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix ioremap_flags() with book3e pte definition Kumar Gala
2010-06-02 22:02   ` Greg KH
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2010-05-14  4:25 [PATCH] powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace Kumar Gala
2010-05-14 15:18 ` Becky Bruce

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