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Commit 26ecb6c4 authored by Suzuki Poulose's avatar Suzuki Poulose Committed by Josh Boyer
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powerpc/44x: Enable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for PPC44x



The following patch adds relocatable kernel support - based on processing
of dynamic relocations - for PPC44x kernel.

We find the runtime address of _stext and relocate ourselves based
on the following calculation.

	virtual_base = ALIGN(KERNELBASE,256M) +
			MODULO(_stext.run,256M)

relocate() is called with the Effective Virtual Base Address (as
shown below)

            | Phys. Addr| Virt. Addr |
Page (256M) |------------------------|
Boundary    |           |            |
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
Kernel Load |___________|_ __ _ _ _ _|<- Effective
Addr(_stext)|           |      ^     |Virt. Base Addr
            |           |      |     |
            |           |      |     |
            |           |reloc_offset|
            |           |      |     |
            |           |      |     |
            |           |______v_____|<-(KERNELBASE)%256M
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
            |           |            |
Page(256M)  |-----------|------------|
Boundary    |           |            |

The virt_phys_offset is updated accordingly, i.e,

	virt_phys_offset = effective. kernel virt base - kernstart_addr

I have tested the patches on 440x platforms only. However this should
work fine for PPC_47x also, as we only depend on the runtime address
and the current TLB XLAT entry for the startup code, which is available
in r25. I don't have access to a 47x board yet. So, it would be great if
somebody could test this on 47x.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
parent 368ff8f1
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