Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kvm: fix a bad BSYM() usage

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On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 05:08:42PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> BSYM() should only be used when refering to local symbols in the same
> assembly file which are resolved by the assembler, and not for
> linker-fixed up symbols.  The use of BSYM() with panic is incorrect as
> the linker is involved in fixing up this relocation, and it knows
> whether panic() is ARM or Thumb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> index 79caf79b304a..87847d2c5f99 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
> @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ENTRY(kvm_call_hyp)
>  THUMB(	orr	r2, r2, #PSR_T_BIT	)
>  	msr	spsr_cxsf, r2
>  	mrs	r1, ELR_hyp
> -	ldr	r2, =BSYM(panic)
> +	ldr	r2, =panic
>  	msr	ELR_hyp, r2
>  	ldr	r0, =\panic_str
>  	clrex				@ Clear exclusive monitor
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 

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