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authorStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>2012-10-29 19:19:34 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-11-04 10:31:16 +0000
commitee951c630c5ce5108f8014ce1c9d738b5bbfea60 (patch)
treea0f7428f58d1ff028c4a88c94fdb1aa61bbcbbd6
parenta68becd1dcda55b467dcabaff136cadc10abb761 (diff)
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ARM: 7568/1: Sort exception table at compile time
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 <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S19
-rw-r--r--scripts/sortextable.c1
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 73067ef..208414c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ config ARM
select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
select ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
+ select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT if MMU
select CPU_PM if (SUSPEND || CPU_IDLE)
select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7) && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if (CPU_V6 || !CPU_32v6K || !AEABI)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 36ff15b..b9f38e3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ SECTIONS
RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+ . = ALIGN(4);
+ __ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __start___ex_table = .;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+ *(__ex_table)
+#endif
+ __stop___ex_table = .;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
/*
* Stack unwinding tables
@@ -220,16 +229,6 @@ SECTIONS
READ_MOSTLY_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
/*
- * The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime)
- */
- . = ALIGN(4);
- __start___ex_table = .;
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
- *(__ex_table)
-#endif
- __stop___ex_table = .;
-
- /*
* and the usual data section
*/
DATA_DATA
diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
index f19ddc4..1f10e89 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.c
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
case EM_S390:
custom_sort = sort_relative_table;
break;
+ case EM_ARM:
case EM_MIPS:
break;
} /* end switch */
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