Merge branch 'topic/livepatch' into next

Merge the support for live patching on ppc64le using mprofile-kernel.
This branch has also been merged into the livepatching tree for v4.7.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index b1870fbd2b67..7e8d792da963 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1530,7 +1530,19 @@ static int ftrace_cmp_recs(const void *a, const void *b)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static unsigned long ftrace_location_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+/**
+ * ftrace_location_range - return the first address of a traced location
+ *	if it touches the given ip range
+ * @start: start of range to search.
+ * @end: end of range to search (inclusive). @end points to the last byte
+ *	to check.
+ *
+ * Returns rec->ip if the related ftrace location is a least partly within
+ * the given address range. That is, the first address of the instruction
+ * that is either a NOP or call to the function tracer. It checks the ftrace
+ * internal tables to determine if the address belongs or not.
+ */
+unsigned long ftrace_location_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct ftrace_page *pg;
 	struct dyn_ftrace *rec;