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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/04/2016 10:20 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> 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
> 

That doesn't mean it can't be overridden.

	-hpa