From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>,
David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:54:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F90EC19.7070103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F90EAC1.6070508@zytor.com>
On 04/19/2012 09:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Ah, apparently it is possible to generate relocations relative to the
> start of the current section.
>
Nevermind... I'm wrong. The assembler will generate them but the linker
will produce garbage.
So I think using PC-relative relocations and have the postprocessor (or
the sort in the module loader) convert them to section-relative makes
sense...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 21:59 [PATCH v2 0/5] Speed booting by sorting exception tables at build time David Daney
2012-04-19 21:59 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table David Daney
2012-04-20 0:20 ` [tip:x86/extable] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel' s " tip-bot for David Daney
2012-04-20 1:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's " H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 3:17 ` David Daney
2012-04-20 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-20 3:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 4:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 4:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-20 21:55 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Use .pushsection ... . popsection for _ASM_EXTABLE() tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 21:56 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 21:57 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 21:58 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 21:58 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/kernel/test_rodata.c tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 21:59 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/checksum_32.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:00 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:01 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/ copy_user_nocache_64.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:02 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/csum-copy_64.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:03 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/getuser.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:03 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/putuser.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:04 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:05 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/um/checksum_32.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:06 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:07 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove the now-unused __ASM_EX_SEC macros tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:08 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host .h tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 22:08 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/include/asm/xsave.h tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-21 0:16 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Remove open-coded exception table entries in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-21 0:17 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_EX() macro tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-21 1:16 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Disable presorted exception table for now tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-21 1:17 ` [tip:x86/extable] x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-20 14:59 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-20 16:49 ` David Daney
2012-04-19 21:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] extable: Skip sorting if sorted at build time David Daney
2012-04-20 0:21 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for David Daney
2012-04-19 21:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] kbuild/extable: Hook up sortextable into the build system David Daney
2012-04-20 0:22 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for David Daney
2012-04-20 15:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] " Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-19 21:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] MIPS: Select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT David Daney
2012-04-20 0:23 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for David Daney
2012-04-19 21:59 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86: " David Daney
2012-04-20 0:23 ` [tip:x86/extable] " tip-bot for David Daney
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