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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700 |
| commit | 9cbc1cb8cd46ce1f7645b9de249b2ce8460129bb (patch) | |
| tree | 8d104ec2a459346b99413b0b77421ca7b9936c1a /lib/extable.c | |
| parent | ca44d6e60f9de26281fda203f58b570e1748c015 (diff) | |
| parent | 45e3e1935e2857c54783291107d33323b3ef33c8 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
net/core/drop_monitor.c
net/core/net-traces.c
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/extable.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/extable.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/extable.c b/lib/extable.c index 179c0874559..4cac81ec225 100644 --- a/lib/extable.c +++ b/lib/extable.c @@ -39,7 +39,26 @@ void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start, sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry), cmp_ex, NULL); } -#endif + +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES +/* + * If the exception table is sorted, any referring to the module init + * will be at the beginning or the end. + */ +void trim_init_extable(struct module *m) +{ + /*trim the beginning*/ + while (m->num_exentries && within_module_init(m->extable[0].insn, m)) { + m->extable++; + m->num_exentries--; + } + /*trim the end*/ + while (m->num_exentries && + within_module_init(m->extable[m->num_exentries-1].insn, m)) + m->num_exentries--; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */ +#endif /* !ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE */ #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE /* |