Building with a large config and -ffunction-sections results in a large
number of sections and sortextable needs to be able to handle that.
Implement support for > 64K sections as modpost does.
Signed-off-by: NJamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The exception table sorter outputs one line every time
it gets called, e.g. 'sort done marker at 66dc00', which
is slightly annoying when doing 'make -s' which is otherwise
completely silent. Since that output is not helpful to
most people building the kernel, turn it off by default.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

x86 is now using relative rather than absolute addresses in its
exception table, so we add a sorter for these.  If there are
relocations on the __ex_table section, they are redundant and probably
incorrect after the sort, so they are zeroed out leaving them valid
and consistent.

Also use the unaligned safe accessors from tools/{be,le}_byteshift.h
Signed-off-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335291795-26693-2-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
cycles sorting the exception table.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-2-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>