3 * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
5 * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
9 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
10 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
13 #include <linux/config.h>
14 #include <linux/module.h>
15 #include <linux/init.h>
16 #include <linux/sort.h>
17 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
19 extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table
[];
20 extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table
[];
22 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE
24 * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
25 * search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
26 * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
27 * the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
29 static int cmp_ex(const void *a
, const void *b
)
31 const struct exception_table_entry
*x
= a
, *y
= b
;
34 if (x
->insn
> y
->insn
)
36 if (x
->insn
< y
->insn
)
41 void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry
*start
,
42 struct exception_table_entry
*finish
)
44 sort(start
, finish
- start
, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry
),
49 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE
51 * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
52 * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
53 * or NULL if none is found.
54 * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
57 const struct exception_table_entry
*
58 search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry
*first
,
59 const struct exception_table_entry
*last
,
62 while (first
<= last
) {
63 const struct exception_table_entry
*mid
;
65 mid
= (last
- first
) / 2 + first
;
67 * careful, the distance between entries can be
70 if (mid
->insn
< value
)
72 else if (mid
->insn
> value
)