RE: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: switch to relative exception tables

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Jan 04 2016 - 13:20:55 EST


> May I humbly ask why the [Finnish] you don't use the equivalent of the
> x86 _ASM_EXTABLE() macro? In fact, why don't we make that one generic, too?

I'm messing with that right now (with help from Andy Lutomirski and Boris) to
add different classes of exception table (so I can tag some instructions as being
suitable for fixup from the machine check handler). So it might not be generic
for much longer.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145187079504846&w=2

-Tony