From ab7476cf76e560f0efda2a631a70aabe93009025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:29:38 -0700 Subject: debug: add notifier chain debugging, v2 - unbreak ia64 (and powerpc) where function pointers dont point at code but at data (reported by Tony Luck) [ mingo@elte.hu: various cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/extable.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/extable.c') diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index a26cb2e17023..adf0cc9c02d6 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -66,3 +66,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr) return 1; return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; } + +/* + * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers + * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the + * real function address. As a result, to find if a function + * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some + * special dereferencing first. + */ +int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr) +{ + unsigned long addr; + addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr); + if (core_kernel_text(addr)) + return 1; + return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; +} -- cgit v1.2.3