[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ppc64 changes

This patch contains the ppc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h b/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h
index 7bd4796f1236..8bd7aa959385 100644
--- a/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h
+++ b/include/asm-ppc64/processor.h
@@ -311,6 +311,20 @@ name: \
         .type GLUE(.,name),@function; \
 GLUE(.,name):
 
+#define _KPROBE(name) \
+        .section ".kprobes.text","a"; \
+        .align 2 ; \
+        .globl name; \
+        .globl GLUE(.,name); \
+        .section ".opd","aw"; \
+name: \
+        .quad GLUE(.,name); \
+        .quad .TOC.@tocbase; \
+        .quad 0; \
+        .previous; \
+        .type GLUE(.,name),@function; \
+GLUE(.,name):
+
 #define _STATIC(name) \
         .section ".text"; \
         .align 2 ; \