linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 05/13] powerpc/ftrace: Don't save again LR in ftrace_regs

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Date:   Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:38:16 +0000
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "live-patching@...r.kernel.org" <live-patching@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 05/13] powerpc/ftrace: Don't save again LR in
 ftrace_regs_caller() on PPC32

PPC32 mcount() caller already saves LR on stack,
no need to save it again.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S
index 0a02c0cb12d9..7e2fd729116b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace_32.S
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ _GLOBAL(ftrace_stub)
 	blr
 
 _GLOBAL(ftrace_regs_caller)
-	/* Save the original return address in A's stack frame */
-	stw	r0,LRSAVE(r1)
-
 	/* Create our stack frame + pt_regs */
 	stwu	r1,-INT_FRAME_SIZE(r1)
 
-- 
2.33.1