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On 11/22/2011 05:00 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> Also, we might need the patches which sort extable at build time too,
> which are floating around lkml currently.
> 
> Hmm...
> 

Yes, with the extable set up at build time there isn't really any strong
reason why we couldn't take exceptions very early.

I am supposed to dredge up the perfect hash code I already have for this
(I'm away from work this and next week to deal with personal stuff, so
it might be a bit slow.)

	-hpa

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