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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2018-04-25 18:35:26 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2018-05-07 21:12:38 +0200
commit23a4d7fd34856da8218c4cfc23dba7a6ec0a423a (patch)
treef6bf7c9d6e0f61af64bba6877562e63793b8e4c1 /arch/s390/kernel/base.S
parent97489e0663fa700d6e7febddc43b58df98d7bcda (diff)
s390/ftrace: use expoline for indirect branches
The return from the ftrace_stub, _mcount, ftrace_caller and return_to_handler functions is done with "br %r14" and "br %r1". These are indirect branches as well and need to use execute trampolines for CONFIG_EXPOLINE=y. The ftrace_caller function is a special case as it returns to the start of a function and may only use %r0 and %r1. For a pre z10 machine the standard execute trampoline uses a LARL + EX to do this, but this requires *two* registers in the range %r1..%r15. To get around this the 'br %r1' located in the lowcore is used, then the EX instruction does not need an address register. But the lowcore trick may only be used for pre z14 machines, with noexec=on the mapping for the first page may not contain instructions. The solution for that is an ALTERNATIVE in the expoline THUNK generated by 'GEN_BR_THUNK %r1' to switch to EXRL, this relies on the fact that a machine that supports noexec=on has EXRL as well. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.16 Fixes: f19fbd5ed6 ("s390: introduce execute-trampolines for branches") Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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