[PATCH] arm64: extable: sort the exception table at build time
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri May 17 12:43:41 EDT 2013
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 at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 15 +++++++--------
scripts/sortextable.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 48347dc..fb8fd90 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARM_AMBA
select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
select ARM_GIC
+ select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
select CLONE_BACKWARDS
select COMMON_CLK
select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 3fae2be..3d527726 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ SECTIONS
RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+ . = ALIGN(8);
+ __ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __start___ex_table = .;
+ *(__ex_table)
+ __stop___ex_table = .;
+ }
+
_etext = .; /* End of text and rodata section */
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -99,14 +106,6 @@ SECTIONS
READ_MOSTLY_DATA(64)
/*
- * The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime)
- */
- . = ALIGN(32);
- __start___ex_table = .;
- *(__ex_table)
- __stop___ex_table = .;
-
- /*
* and the usual data section
*/
DATA_DATA
diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
index 1f10e89..f9ce116 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.c
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
#include <tools/be_byteshift.h>
#include <tools/le_byteshift.h>
+#ifndef EM_AARCH64
+#define EM_AARCH64 183
+#endif
+
static int fd_map; /* File descriptor for file being modified. */
static int mmap_failed; /* Boolean flag. */
static void *ehdr_curr; /* current ElfXX_Ehdr * for resource cleanup */
@@ -249,6 +253,7 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
custom_sort = sort_relative_table;
break;
case EM_ARM:
+ case EM_AARCH64:
case EM_MIPS:
break;
} /* end switch */
--
1.8.2.2
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