linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:54:49 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Daney <david.s.daney@...il.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's
 exception table.

On 04/19/2012 09:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Ah, apparently it is possible to generate relocations relative to the
> start of the current section.
> 

Nevermind... I'm wrong.  The assembler will generate them but the linker
will produce garbage.

So I think using PC-relative relocations and have the postprocessor (or
the sort in the module loader) convert them to section-relative makes
sense...

	-hpa
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