From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: Make sortextable handle relocations.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:17:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F91EEA2.8020502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F91EDBD.4030700@gmail.com>
On 04/20/2012 04:14 PM, David Daney wrote:
>>
>> I think Linus is right and the right thing to do is to switch to using
>> relative entries in the exception table; I am currently testing a
>> patchset to do exactly that (on x86). It also has the benefit of making
>> the table half the size on x86-64. Then we can just zero out the
>> .rel[a]__ex_table section and be done with it.
>
> That's fine.
>
> In any event we want to do build time sorting, this patch improves the
> original sortextable, so may be worthwhile as purely a cleanup. I
> wanted to fix the relocation breakage, even if the eventual solution
> needs to be somewhat different.
>
Yes... let me finish the patchset and then you can look at what is needed.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 22:41 [PATCH] scripts: Make sortextable handle relocations David Daney
2012-04-20 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 23:14 ` David Daney
2012-04-20 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-21 1:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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