Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/8/19 7:22 pm, Santosh Sivaraj wrote: >> Certain architecture specific operating modes (e.g., in powerpc machine >> check handler that is unable to access vmalloc memory), the >> search_exception_tables cannot be called because it also searches the >> module exception tables if entry is not found in the kernel exception >> table. >> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> >> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> >> Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj <sant...@fossix.org> >> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> >> --- >> include/linux/extable.h | 2 ++ >> kernel/extable.c | 11 +++++++++-- >> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/extable.h b/include/linux/extable.h >> index 41c5b3a25f67..81ecfaa83ad3 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/extable.h >> +++ b/include/linux/extable.h >> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ void trim_init_extable(struct module *m); >> >> /* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables */ >> const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long >> add); >> +const struct exception_table_entry * >> +search_kernel_exception_table(unsigned long addr); >> > > Can we find a better name search_kernel still sounds like all of the kernel. > Can we rename it to search_kernel_linear_map_extable?
I thought search_kernel_exception_table and search_module_extables were non-ambiguous enough :-) But If you think name will be confusing, I can change that as suggested. Thanks, Santosh > > >> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES >> /* For extable.c to search modules' exception tables. */ >> diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c >> index e23cce6e6092..f6c9406eec7d 100644 >> --- a/kernel/extable.c >> +++ b/kernel/extable.c >> @@ -40,13 +40,20 @@ void __init sort_main_extable(void) >> } >> } >> >> +/* Given an address, look for it in the kernel exception table */ >> +const >> +struct exception_table_entry *search_kernel_exception_table(unsigned long >> addr) >> +{ >> + return search_extable(__start___ex_table, >> + __stop___ex_table - __start___ex_table, addr); >> +} >> + >> /* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */ >> const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long >> addr) >> { >> const struct exception_table_entry *e; >> >> - e = search_extable(__start___ex_table, >> - __stop___ex_table - __start___ex_table, addr); >> + e = search_kernel_exception_table(addr); >> if (!e) >> e = search_module_extables(addr); >> return e; >> -- if (( RANDOM % 2 )); then ~/bin/cookie; else fortune -s; fi #cat ~/notes/quotes | sort -R | head -1 | cut -f2- -d " "