The old ppc64 implementation replaces 2 or 4 insns, which leaves a race
condition in which a thread could be stopped at a PC in the middle of
the sequence, and when restarted does not see the complete address
computation and branches to nowhere.
The new implemetation replaces only one insn, swapping between
b <dest>
and
mtctr r31
falling through to a general-case indirect branch.
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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