On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:44:42AM +0100, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Add the ARM machine identifier to sortextable and select the > config option so that we can sort the exception table at compile > time. sortextable relies on a section named __ex_table existing > in the vmlinux, but ARM's linker script places the exception > table in the data section. Give the exception table its own > section so that sortextable can find it. > > This allows us to skip the sorting step during boot. > > Cc: David Daney <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <[email protected]> > ---
Just had a play with this for my A15 platform and it seems to work fine when targetting either ARM or Thumb-2 kernels. Tested-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cheers, Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
