On 5 January 2016 at 16:19, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are currently four architectures (x86, ia64, alpha and s390) whose > user-access exception tables are relative to the table entry address rather > than absolute. Each of these architectures has its own search_extable() and > sort_extable() implementation, which are not only mostly identical to each > other, but also deviate very little from the generic absolute implementations > in lib/extable.c that they override. > > So before making arm64 the fifth architecture that reimplements this, let's > refactor the existing code so that all of these architectures use common code > for searching and sorting the relative extables. Archs may set > ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE to indicate that the table consists of a pair of > relative ints, and may define swap_ex_entry_fixup() if the fixup member needs > special treatment in the swapping step of the sorting routine (such as alpha). > [...] Now that I have collected acks for all the patches, I think this is good to go in. @Andrew: since this touches 5 different architectures, is this perhaps something that could go in via your tree after -rc1? (assuming that the s390 bugfix has been merged by then) Thanks, Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
