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debug: add notifier chain debugging, v2

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- 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 <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven 2008-08-15 15:29:38 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
parent fb822db465
commit ab7476cf76
4 changed files with 21 additions and 10 deletions
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kernel/extable.c
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@ -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;
}