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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-07 12:30:18 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-07 12:30:18 +0300
commit15bcdc9477b03eb035052412c3a087e11e855e76 (patch)
treee1e3c1f2b89e3a705d1737d61a4d8a9394a1930e /arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
parent340b5319c98eb14f7a70947a38e17d06f5beea88 (diff)
parente4880bc5dfb1f02b152e62a894b5c6f3e995b3cf (diff)
downloadlinux-15bcdc9477b03eb035052412c3a087e11e855e76.tar.xz
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts
Conflicts: tools/perf/arch/arm/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/arm64/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/powerpc/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/s390/annotate/instructions.c tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/intel-cqm.c tools/perf/ui/tui/progress.c tools/perf/util/zlib.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index 5482928eea1b..abef812de7f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -83,16 +83,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
* On PPC64 ABIv1 the function pointer actually points to the
* function's descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the
* address of the function text.
- *
- * However, we may also receive pointer to an assembly symbol. To
- * detect that, we first check if the function pointer we receive
- * already points to kernel/module text and we only dereference it
- * if it doesn't.
*/
- if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)func))
- return (unsigned long)func;
- else
- return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+ return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
#else
return (unsigned long)func;
#endif