Can we just switch this on? Powerpc does not use relative extables
(that's a nice exercise left for the reader), so it should just use
the standard sort.
This patch seems to work, famous last words...
Sorting probably only takes a few ms on any real hardware, but on on
very large kernel configs, extable sorting can take several seconds in
simulators and be a noticable cost to booting.
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
scripts/sortextable.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 927d2ab..2340483 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ config ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_COHERENT_MASK
config PPC
bool
default y
+ select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO
select BINFMT_ELF
diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
index f453b7c..30337e1 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.c
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
case EM_MICROBLAZE:
case EM_MIPS:
case EM_XTENSA:
+ case EM_PPC:
+ case EM_PPC64:
break;
} /* end switch */
--
2.9.3
