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    powerpc/ftrace: Separate the heuristics for checking call sites · 9d636109
    Michael Ellerman authored
    In __ftrace_make_nop() (the 64-bit version), we have code to deal with
    two ftrace ABIs. There is the original ABI, which looks mostly like a
    function call, and then the mprofile-kernel ABI which is just a branch.
    
    The code tries to handle both cases, by looking for the presence of a
    load to restore the TOC pointer (PPC_INST_LD_TOC). If we detect the TOC
    load, we assume the call site is for an mcount() call using the old ABI.
    That means we patch the mcount() call with a b +8, to branch over the
    TOC load.
    
    However if the kernel was built with mprofile-kernel, then there will
    never be a call site using the original ftrace ABI. If for some reason
    we do see a TOC load, then it's there for a good reason, and we should
    not jump over it.
    
    So split the code, using the existing CC_USING_MPROFILE_KERNEL. Kernels
    built with mprofile-kernel will only look for, and expect, the new ABI,
    and similarly for the original ABI.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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