linux/Documentation/x86
Tony Luck 548acf1923 x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options
Huge amounts of help from  Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.

Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:

  ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
    in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '

The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.

We start out with three handlers:

 1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
 2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
 3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-18 09:21:46 +01:00
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i386
x86_64 Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
00-INDEX
boot.txt Merge branch 'x86/boot' into x86/urgent 2015-06-30 07:57:04 +02:00
early-microcode.txt
earlyprintk.txt
entry_64.txt x86/asm/entry/64: Update path names 2015-07-02 11:08:50 +02:00
exception-tables.txt x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options 2016-02-18 09:21:46 +01:00
intel_mpx.txt x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt 2014-12-15 15:58:57 +01:00
kernel-stacks Documentation/x86: Rename IRQSTACKSIZE to IRQ_STACK_SIZE 2015-08-24 11:42:41 -06:00
mtrr.txt x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del() 2015-08-28 10:09:28 +02:00
pat.txt x86/mm/pat: Add set_memory_wt() for Write-Through type 2015-06-07 15:29:00 +02:00
tlb.txt
usb-legacy-support.txt
zero-page.txt x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table 2015-07-21 10:55:11 +02:00