From: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] powerpc/module: Handle caller-saved TOC in module linker
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:39:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000bd079a8605ae477f9fb78a4aa41bf04421ef8.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e411080-5f68-1ec8-b2fd-bb508a81078a@csgroup.eu>
On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 19:18 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 05/10/2022 à 07:32, Benjamin Gray a écrit :
> > The callee may set a field in st_other to 1 to indicate r2 should
> > be
> > treated as caller-saved. This means a trampoline must be used to
> > save
> > the current TOC before calling it and restore it afterwards, much
> > like
> > external calls.
>
> The 'callee', what is that here in that context ?
>
> Don't you mean the 'linker' instead ?
Callee in the sense of the function body, as opposed to the call-site
like the R_PPC64_REL24, etc., relocations are (which I was thinking of
as the caller). I can see how the comment needs more context though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-06 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-05 5:32 [PATCH v3 0/6] Out-of-line static calls for powerpc64 ELF V2 Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] powerpc/code-patching: Implement generic text patching function Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 17:55 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 3:36 ` Benjamin Gray
2022-10-06 9:19 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 21:53 ` Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] powerpc/module: Handle caller-saved TOC in module linker Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 19:18 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 3:51 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-10-06 4:39 ` Benjamin Gray [this message]
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] powerpc/module: Optimise nearby branches in ELF V2 ABI stub Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 19:21 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 8:24 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] static_call: Move static call selftest to static_call_selftest.c Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 19:22 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] powerpc/64: Add support for out-of-line static calls Benjamin Gray
2022-10-05 19:38 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 0:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-10-06 5:01 ` Benjamin Gray
2022-10-06 18:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-10-06 18:38 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 20:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-10-06 20:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-10-06 21:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-10-05 5:32 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] powerpc: Add tests " Benjamin Gray
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