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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:25:53 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:52:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/26/2012 01:48 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:27:23PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> I keep wondering if we couldn't have the early-static trap handlers be
> >> aware of exception tables, too; they wouldn't have to worry about
> >> modules and so it would be reasonably easy.
> > 
> > Well, we talked about this recently and then we decided we needed the
> > extable-sorting-at-build-time patches before we make those static trap
> > handlers aware of extables. What happened to those patches, btw? See
> > thread at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132196692827070
> > 
> 
> Hm... I hope that didn't stall out because of me... the amount of
> overload I have been under lately is a bit scary.
> 
> I was going to dredge out the perfect hash stuff that I had, but the
> sorting stuff could be done without that.

Ok, let me scratch up something in the coming days.

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