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2013-06-12arm64: extable: sort the exception table at build timeWill Deacon
As is done for other architectures, sort the exception table at build-time rather than during boot. Since sortextable appears to be a standalone C program relying on the host elf.h to provide EM_AARCH64, I've had to add a conditional check in order to allow cross-compilation on machines that aren't running a bleeding-edge libc-dev. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2012-11-04ARM: 7568/1: Sort exception table at compile timeStephen Boyd
Add the ARM machine identifier to sortextable and select the config option so that we can sort the exception table at compile time. sortextable relies on a section named __ex_table existing in the vmlinux, but ARM's linker script places the exception table in the data section. Give the exception table its own section so that sortextable can find it. This allows us to skip the sorting step during boot. Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table entriesHeiko Carstens
This is the s390 port of 70627654 "x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries". Reduces the size of our exception tables by 50% on 64 bit builds. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-07-26s390/exceptions: sort exception table at build timeHeiko Carstens
Follow x86 and MIPS and sort the main exception table at build time. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-04-24scripts/sortextable: Handle relative entries, and other cleanupsDavid Daney
x86 is now using relative rather than absolute addresses in its exception table, so we add a sorter for these. If there are relocations on the __ex_table section, they are redundant and probably incorrect after the sort, so they are zeroed out leaving them valid and consistent. Also use the unaligned safe accessors from tools/{be,le}_byteshift.h Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335291795-26693-2-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-04-19scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.David Daney
Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn cycles sorting the exception table. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-2-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>