[PATCH] arm64: extable: sort the exception table at build time

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon May 20 05:49:50 EDT 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:49:50PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > +	. = ALIGN(8);
> > +	__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
> > +		__start___ex_table = .;
> > +		*(__ex_table)
> > +		__stop___ex_table = .;
> > +	}
> 
> Here you could use:
>      EXCEPTION_TABLE(align)
> 
> (From include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h)

Good spot, I'll spin a v2 using that. Looks like we don't use that for
arch/arm/ because we want to discard the section ifdef CONFIG_MMU. Maybe we
could change the generic macro to expand to nothing if !MMU, but I'm not
sure if other MMU-less architectures are playing tricks with this.

Will



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