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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-03-03 05:26:53 +0100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2016-03-07 04:53:52 +0100
commita5cab83cd3d2d75d3893276cb5f27e163484ef04 (patch)
tree1281c0987bde07bf74e452025e99a9f75ff38b95 /arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
parentLinux 4.5-rc3 (diff)
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powerpc: Create a helper for getting the kernel toc value
Move the logic to work out the kernel toc pointer into a header. This is a good cleanup, and also means we can use it elsewhere in future. Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
index 01ea0edf0579..93dae296b6be 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/kexec.h>
-/* This symbol is provided by the linker - let it fill in the paca
- * field correctly */
-extern unsigned long __toc_start;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
/*
@@ -149,11 +145,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(paca);
void __init initialise_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca, int cpu)
{
- /* The TOC register (GPR2) points 32kB into the TOC, so that 64kB
- * of the TOC can be addressed using a single machine instruction.
- */
- unsigned long kernel_toc = (unsigned long)(&__toc_start) + 0x8000UL;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
new_paca->lppaca_ptr = new_lppaca(cpu);
#else
@@ -161,7 +152,7 @@ void __init initialise_paca(struct paca_struct *new_paca, int cpu)
#endif
new_paca->lock_token = 0x8000;
new_paca->paca_index = cpu;
- new_paca->kernel_toc = kernel_toc;
+ new_paca->kernel_toc = kernel_toc_addr();
new_paca->kernelbase = (unsigned long) _stext;
/* Only set MSR:IR/DR when MMU is initialized */
new_paca->kernel_msr = MSR_KERNEL & ~(MSR_IR | MSR_DR);