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

[Luck, Tony]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:28:52PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 4 January 2016 at 20:21, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I suspect that means we will also need to go back to arch-specific
> > sorting for x86.
> >
> 
> AFAICT, Tony's patches are not incompatible with mine. The fixup
> address is offset with a large constant, but this does not affect the
> sort order (since that is based on the other member), and the swap
> operation that adds/subtracts the delta should not care about the
> class bits. (I don't see any changes to sort_extable() in Tony's
> patch)

Correct. Sorting is by the "insn" field (which I did not change).
The "fixup" field is just modified by an offset value, so survives
the math when moved to a new slot by the sort.

> @Tony: any comments? And do you have any objections to the ia64 patch
> in this series?
The ia64 bits look OK. I haven't tested, but add my Acked-by: anyway.

-Tony
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