[PATCH 6/6] arm64: switch to relative exception tables

Luck, Tony tony.luck at intel.com
Mon Jan 4 10:20:50 PST 2016


> May I humbly ask why the [Finnish] you don't use the equivalent of the
> x86 _ASM_EXTABLE() macro?  In fact, why don't we make that one generic, too?

I'm messing with that right now (with help from Andy Lutomirski and Boris) to
add different classes of exception table (so I can tag some instructions as being
suitable for fixup from the machine check handler).  So it might not be generic
for much longer.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145187079504846&w=2

-Tony


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