strings to the
proper section to begin with. This wouldn't be unprecedented, the
Mozilla people already use their own extensions to GCC, and will
probably migrate to GCC plug-ins. We don't want the kernel to get left
behind in the GCC plug-in race.
David Daney
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From: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.
Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.
Signed-off-by: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
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Makefile
From: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
We can sort the exeception table at build time for x86, so let's do
it.
Signed-off-by: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
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arch/x86/Kconfig |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
From: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
We can sort the exeception table at build time for MIPS, so let's do
it.
Signed-off-by: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
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arch/mips/Kconfig |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips
From: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
cycles sorting the exception table.
Signed-off-by: David Daney david.da...@cavium.com
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scripts/.gitignore|1 +
scripts/Makefile |1 +
scripts/sortextable.c | 273
On 11/20/2011 03:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 11/18/2011 11:37 AM, David Daney wrote:
From: David Daneydavid.da...@cavium.com
Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
cycles sorting the exception table.
If we're going to do this at build time, I would
