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diff --git a/lib/extable.c b/lib/extable.c new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3f677a8f0c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/extable.c @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +/* + * lib/extable.c + * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c. + * + * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + */ + +#include <linux/config.h> +#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/init.h> +#include <linux/sort.h> +#include <asm/uaccess.h> + +extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[]; +extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[]; + +#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE +/* + * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary + * search that we use to find entries in it works properly. + * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for + * the exception tables of modules that get loaded. + */ +static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const void *b) +{ +	const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b; + +	/* avoid overflow */ +	if (x->insn > y->insn) +		return 1; +	if (x->insn < y->insn) +		return -1; +	return 0; +} + +void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start, +		  struct exception_table_entry *finish) +{ +	sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry), +	     cmp_ex, NULL); +} +#endif + +#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE +/* + * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the + * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry, + * or NULL if none is found. + * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is + * already sorted. + */ +const struct exception_table_entry * +search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *first, +	       const struct exception_table_entry *last, +	       unsigned long value) +{ +	while (first <= last) { +		const struct exception_table_entry *mid; + +		mid = (last - first) / 2 + first; +		/* +		 * careful, the distance between entries can be +		 * larger than 2GB: +		 */ +		if (mid->insn < value) +			first = mid + 1; +		else if (mid->insn > value) +			last = mid - 1; +		else +			return mid; +        } +        return NULL; +} +#endif  |