Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"This topic tree contains more commits than usual:
- most of it are uaccess cleanups/reorganization by Al
- there's a bunch of prototype declaration (--Wmissing-prototypes)
cleanups
- misc other cleanups all around the map"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
x86/mm/set_memory: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
x86/efi: Add a prototype for efi_arch_mem_reserve()
x86/mm: Mark setup_emu2phys_nid() static
x86/jump_label: Move 'inline' keyword placement
x86/platform/uv: Add a missing prototype for uv_bau_message_interrupt()
kill uaccess_try()
x86: unsafe_put-style macro for sigmask
x86: x32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
x86: __setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
x86: __setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
x86: setup_sigcontext(): list user_access_{begin,end}() into callers
x86: get rid of put_user_try in __setup_rt_frame() (both 32bit and 64bit)
x86: ia32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
x86: ia32_setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
x86: ia32_setup_sigcontext(): lift user_access_{begin,end}() into the callers
x86/alternatives: Mark text_poke_loc_init() static
x86/cpu: Fix a -Wmissing-prototypes warning for init_ia32_feat_ctl()
x86/mm: Drop pud_mknotpresent()
x86: Replace setup_irq() by request_irq()
x86/configs: Slightly reduce defconfigs
...
Provide more information about __ex_table sorting post link.
The exception tables and fixup tables use a commonly recurring pattern
in the kernel of storing the address of labels as date in custom ELF
sections, then finding these sections, iterating elements within them,
and possibly revisiting them or modifying the data at these addresses.
Sorting readonly arrays to minimize runtime penalties is quite clever.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327000951.84071-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:09 -06:00
Renamed from Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt (Browse further)
