History log of /linux-master/arch/arm/include/asm/fncpy.h
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# 45051539 29-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 333

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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 136 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530000436.384967451@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 5756e9dd 26-Jan-2011 Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>

ARM: 6640/1: Thumb-2: Symbol manipulation macros for function body copying

In low-level board support code, there is sometimes a need to
copy a function body to another location at run-time.

A straightforward call to memcpy doesn't work in Thumb-2,
because bit 0 of external Thumb function symbols is set to 1,
indicating that the function is Thumb. Without corrective
measures, this will cause an off-by-one copy, and the copy
may be called using the wrong instruction set.

This patch adds an fncpy() macro to help with such copies.

Particular care is needed, because C doesn't guarantee any
defined behaviour when casting a function pointer to any other
type. This has been observed to lead to strange optimisation
side-effects when doing the arithmetic which is required in
order to copy/move function bodies correctly in Thumb-2.

Thanks to Russell King and Nicolas Pitre for their input
on this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>