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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-07 10:32:44 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-11-07 10:32:44 +0100
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Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts
Conflicts: include/linux/compiler-clang.h include/linux/compiler-gcc.h include/linux/compiler-intel.h include/uapi/linux/stddef.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index 5482928eea1b..abef812de7f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -83,16 +83,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
* On PPC64 ABIv1 the function pointer actually points to the
* function's descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the
* address of the function text.
- *
- * However, we may also receive pointer to an assembly symbol. To
- * detect that, we first check if the function pointer we receive
- * already points to kernel/module text and we only dereference it
- * if it doesn't.
*/
- if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)func))
- return (unsigned long)func;
- else
- return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+ return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
#else
return (unsigned long)func;
#endif