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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-10 08:21:08 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-10 08:21:08 +0100
commitb5cd3b51e247473e290be5cd09e77171e466cd89 (patch)
treeac8c87e1b38f61a4c879c574dc9373db41f3df01 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
parent376f3bcebdc999cc737d9052109cc33b573b3a8b (diff)
parent1c9dbd4615fd751e5e0b99807a3c7c8612e28e20 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/platform, to refresh the branch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index 5482928eea1b..abef812de7f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -83,16 +83,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
* On PPC64 ABIv1 the function pointer actually points to the
* function's descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the
* address of the function text.
- *
- * However, we may also receive pointer to an assembly symbol. To
- * detect that, we first check if the function pointer we receive
- * already points to kernel/module text and we only dereference it
- * if it doesn't.
*/
- if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)func))
- return (unsigned long)func;
- else
- return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+ return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
#else
return (unsigned long)func;
#endif