Commit 89bbe4c7 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/64: indirect function call use bctrl rather than blrl in ret_from_kernel_thread

blrl is not recommended to use as an indirect function call, as it may
corrupt the link stack predictor.

This is not a performance critical path but this should be fixed for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611121119.1015740-1-npiggin@gmail.com
parent 48778464
......@@ -233,12 +233,12 @@ _GLOBAL(ret_from_fork)
_GLOBAL(ret_from_kernel_thread)
bl schedule_tail
REST_NVGPRS(r1)
mtlr r14
mtctr r14
mr r3,r15
#ifdef PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2
mr r12,r14
#endif
blrl
bctrl
li r3,0
b .Lsyscall_exit
......
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