---

yaml
---
r: 101716
b: refs/heads/master
c: 07630a3
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 053a858efa46c9ab86363b271374ec02ad2af753
+refs/heads/master: 07630a37beefe8e4401c602f04e3e5bcbba50b31

trunk/include/asm-powerpc/code-patching.h

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
+#include <asm/types.h>
+
 /* Flags for create_branch:
  * "b"   == create_branch(addr, target, 0);
  * "ba"  == create_branch(addr, target, BRANCH_ABSOLUTE);
@@ -24,4 +26,18 @@ unsigned int create_branch(const unsigned int *addr,
 void patch_branch(unsigned int *addr, unsigned long target, int flags);
 void patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr, unsigned int instr);
 
+static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+	/*
+	 * On PPC64 the function pointer actually points to the function's
+	 * descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the address
+	 * of the function text.
+	 */
+	return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+#else
+	return (unsigned long)func;
+#endif
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_CODE_PATCHING_H */