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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index 7c975d43e3f..d5edbeb8eb8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -13,17 +13,23 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/code-patching.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
-void patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr)
+int patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr)
{
- *addr = instr;
+ int err;
+
+ __put_user_size(instr, addr, 4, err);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
asm ("dcbst 0, %0; sync; icbi 0,%0; sync; isync" : : "r" (addr));
+ return 0;
}
-void patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags)
+int patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags)
{
- patch_instruction(addr, create_branch(addr, target, flags));
+ return patch_instruction(addr, create_branch(addr, target, flags));
}
unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
@@ -153,6 +159,21 @@ unsigned int translate_branch(const unsigned int *dest, const unsigned int *src)
return 0;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E_64
+void __patch_exception(int exc, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ extern unsigned int interrupt_base_book3e;
+ unsigned int *ibase = &interrupt_base_book3e;
+
+ /* Our exceptions vectors start with a NOP and -then- a branch
+ * to deal with single stepping from userspace which stops on
+ * the second instruction. Thus we need to patch the second
+ * instruction of the exception, not the first one
+ */
+
+ patch_branch(ibase + (exc / 4) + 1, addr, 0);
+}
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CODE_PATCHING_SELFTEST