patch-2.2.18 linux/arch/ppc/mm/extable.c

• Lines: 55
• Date: Wed Nov 8 23:00:34 2000
• Orig file: v2.2.17/arch/ppc/mm/extable.c
• Orig date: Fri Apr 21 12:45:47 2000

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude v2.2.17/arch/ppc/mm/extable.c linux/arch/ppc/mm/extable.c
@@ -7,8 +7,43 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
-extern const struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
-extern const struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
+extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
+extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
+
+/*
+ * The exception table needs to be sorted because we use the macros
+ * which put things into the exception table in a variety of segments
+ * such as the prep, pmac, chrp, etc. segments as well as the init
+ * segment and the main kernel text segment.
+ */
+static inline void
+sort_ex_table(struct exception_table_entry *start,
+	      struct exception_table_entry *finish)
+{
+	struct exception_table_entry el, *p, *q;
+
+	/* insertion sort */
+	for (p = start + 1; p < finish; ++p) {
+		/* start .. p-1 is sorted */
+		if (p[0].insn < p[-1].insn) {
+			/* move element p down to its right place */
+			el = *p;
+			q = p;
+			do {
+				/* el comes before q[-1], move q[-1] up one */
+				q[0] = q[-1];
+				--q;
+			} while (q > start && el.insn < q[-1].insn);
+			*q = el;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+void
+sort_exception_table(void)
+{
+	sort_ex_table(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
+}
 
 static inline unsigned long
 search_one_table(const struct exception_table_entry *first,
@@ -36,7 +71,7 @@
 {
 	unsigned long ret;
 
-#if 1 /*ndef CONFIG_MODULES*/
+#ifndef CONFIG_MODULES
 	/* There is only the kernel to search.  */
 	ret = search_one_table(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table-1, addr);
 	if (ret) return ret;