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Stephen Boyd ee951c630c ARM: 7568/1: Sort exception table at compile time
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>
2012-11-04 10:31:16 +00:00
Heiko Carstens eb608fb366 s390/exceptions: switch to relative exception table entries
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>
2012-09-26 15:45:10 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 3193a98dc8 s390/exceptions: sort exception table at build time
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>
2012-07-26 10:07:25 +02:00
David Daney d59a16836d scripts/sortextable: Handle relative entries, and other cleanups
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>
2012-04-24 11:42:20 -07:00
David Daney a79f248b9b scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.
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>
2012-04-19 15:06:55 -07:00