On 04/20/2012 04:17 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/20/2012 04:14 PM, David Daney wrote: >>> >>> I think Linus is right and the right thing to do is to switch to using >>> relative entries in the exception table; I am currently testing a >>> patchset to do exactly that (on x86). It also has the benefit of making >>> the table half the size on x86-64. Then we can just zero out the >>> .rel[a]__ex_table section and be done with it. >> >> That's fine. >> >> In any event we want to do build time sorting, this patch improves the >> original sortextable, so may be worthwhile as purely a cleanup. I >> wanted to fix the relocation breakage, even if the eventual solution >> needs to be somewhat different. >> > > Yes... let me finish the patchset and then you can look at what is needed. > > -hpa > The patchset is finished and is in the x86/extable branch of the -tip tree. Any way I can convinc you to produce a patch(set) on top of that branch? -hpa
