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Sergey Senozhatsky 04b8eb7a4c symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
dereference_symbol_descriptor() invokes appropriate ARCH specific
function descriptor dereference callbacks:
- dereference_kernel_function_descriptor() if the pointer is a
  kernel symbol;

- dereference_module_function_descriptor() if the pointer is a
  module symbol.

This is the last step needed to make '%pS/%ps' smart enough to
handle function descriptor dereference on affected ARCHs and
to retire '%pF/%pf'.

To refresh it:
  Some architectures (ia64, ppc64, parisc64) use an indirect pointer
  for C function pointers - the function pointer points to a function
  descriptor and we need to dereference it to get the actual function
  pointer.

  Function descriptors live in .opd elf section and all affected
  ARCHs (ia64, ppc64, parisc64) handle it properly for kernel and
  modules. So we, technically, can decide if the dereference is
  needed by simply looking at the pointer: if it belongs to .opd
  section then we need to dereference it.

  The kernel and modules have their own .opd sections, obviously,
  that's why we need to split dereference_function_descriptor()
  and use separate kernel and module dereference arch callbacks.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206043649.GB15885@jagdpanzerIV
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> #ia64
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> #powerpc
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> #parisc64
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2018-01-09 10:45:38 +01:00
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acpi TTY/Serial patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-13 21:05:31 -08:00
asm-generic sections: split dereference_function_descriptor() 2018-01-09 10:45:37 +01:00
clocksource arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
drm amdgpu DC display code for Vega. 2017-11-17 14:34:42 -08:00
dt-bindings We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
keys
kvm
lib
linux symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor() 2018-01-09 10:45:38 +01:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-17 20:18:37 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20171114 2017-11-14 16:23:44 -08:00
soc We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.15 2017-11-13 15:45:57 +01:00
target A couple of configfs cleanups: 2017-11-14 14:44:04 -08:00
trace Lots of good bugfixes, including: 2017-11-18 11:22:04 -08:00
uapi platform-drivers-x86 for v4.15-1 2017-11-18 10:26:57 -08:00
video fbdev changes for v4.15: 2017-11-20 21:50:24 -10:00
xen xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00