kernel-ark/arch/powerpc
Paul Mackerras e62cee42e6 powerpc: Avoid bad relocations in iSeries code
Subrata Modak reported that building a CONFIG_RELOCATABLE kernel with
CONFIG_ISERIES enabled gives the following warnings:

WARNING: 4 bad relocations
c00000000007216e R_PPC64_ADDR16_HIGHEST  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
c000000000072172 R_PPC64_ADDR16_HIGHER  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
c00000000007217a R_PPC64_ADDR16_HI  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8
c00000000007217e R_PPC64_ADDR16_LO  __ksymtab+0x00000000009dcec8

The reason is that decrementer_iSeries_masked is using
LOAD_REG_IMMEDIATE to get the address of a kernel symbol, which
creates relocations that aren't handled by the kernel relocator code.

Instead of reading the tb_ticks_per_jiffy variable, we can just set
the decrementer to its maximum value (0x7fffffff) and that will work
just as well.  In fact timer_interrupt sets the decrementer to that
value initially anyway, and we are sure to get into timer_interrupt
once interrupts are reenabled because we store 1 to the decrementer
interrupt flag in the lppaca (LPPACADECRINT(r12) here).

Reported-by: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-05-21 17:31:08 +10:00
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boot powerpc/83xx: Add MCU LEDs support for MPC837xRDB and MPC8315RDB boards 2010-05-17 10:55:32 -05:00
configs Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2010-05-07 11:29:25 +10:00
include/asm Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2010-05-07 11:29:25 +10:00
kernel powerpc: Use common cpu_die (fixes SMP+SUSPEND build) 2010-05-21 17:31:08 +10:00
kvm KVM: fix the handling of dirty bitmaps to avoid overflows 2010-04-20 13:06:55 +03:00
lib powerpc: Fix string library functions 2010-05-21 17:31:08 +10:00
math-emu
mm powerpc/fsl-booke: Move loadcam_entry back to asm code to fix SMP ftrace 2010-05-17 10:56:20 -05:00
oprofile include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
platforms powerpc: Avoid bad relocations in iSeries code 2010-05-21 17:31:08 +10:00
sysdev powerpc: Add interrupt support to mpc8xxx_gpio 2010-05-17 10:48:28 -05:00
xmon powerpc: Mark some variables in the page fault path __read_mostly 2010-02-03 17:39:48 +11:00
Kconfig powerpc: Add kprobe-based event tracer 2010-04-07 18:11:43 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/cpumask: Add DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS option 2010-05-06 18:05:26 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00