Re: [PATCHv3] ARM: Sort exception table at compile time

2012-10-25 Thread Will Deacon
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:44:42AM +0100, Stephen Boyd wrote: > 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

[PATCHv3] ARM: Sort exception table at compile time

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen Boyd
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 ta