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author | Tony Luck <[email protected]> | 2016-02-17 10:20:12 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-02-18 09:21:46 +0100 |
commit | 548acf19234dbda5a52d5a8e7e205af46e9da840 (patch) | |
tree | 4dabffd6070e082620a47de718bbab508f928440 /tools/perf/scripts/python/stackcollapse.py | |
parent | 061f817eb6a6f97a7e34b73e5e80baa3a20b7663 (diff) |
x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options
Huge amounts of help from Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.
Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:
' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '
The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.
We start out with three handlers:
1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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