linux-kernel - [PATCH] Powerpc: separate CONFIG_RELOCATABLE from CONFIG

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Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:35:07 -0600
From:	Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Powerpc: separate CONFIG_RELOCATABLE from CONFIG_CRASHDUMP in
 boot code

Fix head_64.S so that we can build a relocatable kernel
that isn't necessarily a crash-dump kernel

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S |    6 ++----
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
index f0dd577..53b098f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ __secondary_hold_acknowledge:
 	.llong hvReleaseData-KERNELBASE
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES */

-#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
+#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
 	/* This flag is set to 1 by a loader if the kernel should run
 	 * at the loaded address instead of the linked address.  This
 	 * is used by kexec-tools to keep the the kdump kernel in the
@@ -384,12 +384,10 @@ _STATIC(__after_prom_start)
 	/* process relocations for the final address of the kernel */
 	lis	r25,PAGE_OFFSET@...hest	/* compute virtual base of kernel */
 	sldi	r25,r25,32
-#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
 	lwz	r7,__run_at_load-_stext(r26)
-	cmplwi	cr0,r7,1	/* kdump kernel ? - stay where we are */
+	cmplwi	cr0,r7,1	/* flagged to stay where we are ? */
 	bne	1f
 	add	r25,r25,r26
-#endif
 1:	mr	r3,r25
 	bl	.relocate
 #endif
-- 
1.5.6.5

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