[PATCH 1/2] ARM: kvm: fix a bad BSYM() usage
Dave P Martin
Dave.Martin at arm.com
Fri May 8 09:31:08 PDT 2015
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 05:08:42PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> BSYM() should only be used when refering to local symbols in the same
> assembly file which are resolved by the assembler, and not for
> linker-fixed up symbols. The use of BSYM() with panic is incorrect as
> the linker is involved in fixing up this relocation, and it knows
> whether panic() is ARM or Thumb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> index 79caf79b304a..87847d2c5f99 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ENTRY(kvm_call_hyp)
> THUMB( orr r2, r2, #PSR_T_BIT )
> msr spsr_cxsf, r2
> mrs r1, ELR_hyp
> - ldr r2, =BSYM(panic)
> + ldr r2, =panic
> msr ELR_hyp, r2
> ldr r0, =\panic_str
> clrex @ Clear exclusive monitor
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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