Commit 5c729a11 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell Committed by Anton Blanchard

powerpc: modules: skip r2 setup for ELFv2

ELFv2 doesn't need to set up r2 when calling a function.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent b1ce369e
......@@ -59,12 +59,19 @@ struct ppc64_stub_entry
struct ppc64_opd_entry opd;
};
/* We use a stub to fix up r2 (TOC ptr) and to jump to the (external)
function which may be more than 24-bits away. We could simply
patch the new r2 value and function pointer into the stub, but it's
significantly shorter to put these values at the end of the stub
code, and patch the stub address (32-bits relative to the TOC ptr,
r2) into the stub. */
/*
* PPC64 uses 24 bit jumps, but we need to jump into other modules or
* the kernel which may be further. So we jump to a stub.
*
* For ELFv1 we need to use this to set up the new r2 value (aka TOC
* pointer). For ELFv2 it's the callee's responsibility to set up the
* new r2, but for both we need to save the old r2.
*
* We could simply patch the new r2 value and function pointer into
* the stub, but it's significantly shorter to put these values at the
* end of the stub code, and patch the stub address (32-bits relative
* to the TOC ptr, r2) into the stub.
*/
static struct ppc64_stub_entry ppc64_stub =
{ .jump = {
0x3d620000, /* addis r11,r2, <high> */
......@@ -72,7 +79,10 @@ static struct ppc64_stub_entry ppc64_stub =
/* Save current r2 value in magic place on the stack. */
0xf8410000|R2_STACK_OFFSET, /* std r2,R2_STACK_OFFSET(r1) */
0xe98b0020, /* ld r12,32(r11) */
#if !defined(_CALL_ELF) || _CALL_ELF != 2
/* Set up new r2 from function descriptor */
0xe84b0026, /* ld r2,40(r11) */
#endif
0x7d8903a6, /* mtctr r12 */
0x4e800420 /* bctr */
} };
......
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