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/* Rewritten by Rusty Russell, on the backs of many others...
Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002 Rusty Russell IBM.
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.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
/*
* mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching).
* some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock.
*
* Note: Also protects SMP-alternatives modification on x86.
*
* NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter.
*/
DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex);
extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
/* Cleared by build time tools if the table is already sorted. */
u32 __initdata __visible main_extable_sort_needed = 1;
/* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */
void __init sort_main_extable(void)
{
if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) {
pr_notice("Sorting __ex_table...\n");
sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
}
}
/* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */
const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr)
{
const struct exception_table_entry *e;
e = search_extable(__start___ex_table,
__stop___ex_table - __start___ex_table, addr);
if (!e)
e = search_module_extables(addr);