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2013-07-01	powerpc: Don't flush/invalidate the d/icache for an unknown relocation type	Kevin Hao
	For an unknown relocation type since the value of r4 is just the 8bit relocation type, the sum of r4 and r7 may yield an invalid memory address. For example: In normal case: r4 = c00xxxxx r7 = 40000000 r4 + r7 = 000xxxxx For an unknown relocation type: r4 = 000000xx r7 = 40000000 r4 + r7 = 400000xx 400000xx is an invalid memory address for a board which has just 512M memory. And for operations such as dcbst or icbi may cause bus error for an invalid memory address on some platforms and then cause the board reset. So we should skip the flush/invalidate the d/icache for an unknown relocation type. Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-12-20	powerpc: Process dynamic relocations for kernel	Suzuki Poulose
	The following patch implements the dynamic relocation processing for PPC32 kernel. relocate() accepts the target virtual address and relocates the kernel image to the same. Currently the following relocation types are handled : R_PPC_RELATIVE R_PPC_ADDR16_LO R_PPC_ADDR16_HI R_PPC_ADDR16_HA The last 3 relocations in the above list depends on value of Symbol indexed whose index is encoded in the Relocation entry. Hence we need the Symbol Table for processing such relocations. Note: The GNU ld for ppc32 produces buggy relocations for relocation types that depend on symbols. The value of the symbols with STB_LOCAL scope should be assumed to be zero. - Alan Modra Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>