Avoids wasting cycles at boot specially on slower simulators
Signed-off-by: NVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Francois Bedard <fbedard@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

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>

Signed-off-by: NRamkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

As is done for other architectures, sort the exception table at
build-time rather than during boot.

Since sortextable appears to be a standalone C program relying on the
host elf.h to provide EM_AARCH64, I've had to add a conditional check in
order to allow cross-compilation on machines that aren't running a
bleeding-edge libc-dev.
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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: NStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This is the s390 port of 70627654 "x86, extable: Switch to relative
exception table entries".
Reduces the size of our exception tables by 50% on 64 bit builds.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Follow x86 and MIPS and sort the main exception table at build time.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.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>