pj4 -marm breaks thumb ftrace

[Stephen Boyd]

On 11/12, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 12 November 2015 at 10:50, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
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> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:17:46 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: PJ4: move coprocessor register access sequences to
>  iwmmxt.S
> 
> The PJ4 inline asm sequences in pj4-cp0.c cannot be built in Thumb-2
> mode, due to the way they perform arithmetic on the program counter,
> so it is built in ARM mode instead. However, building C files in ARM
> mode under CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is problematic, since the
> instrumentation performed by subsystems like ftrace does not expect
> having to deal with interworking branches.
> 
> So instead, revert to building pj4-cp0.c in Thumb-2 mode, and move the
> offending sequences to iwmmxt.S, which is not instrumented anyway,
> and is already built in ARM mode unconditionally.
> 
> Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

I was thinking alone the same lines for an alternate solution. If
you resend with the __INIT stuff I'll test it out.

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