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Version: [ 2.6.11.8 ] [ 2.6.25 ] [ 2.6.25.8 ] [ 2.6.31.13 ] Architecture: [ i386 ]
  1 /*
  2  * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
  3  *
  4  * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
  5  *
  6  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  7  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  8  * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  9  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 10  */
 11 
 12 #include <linux/module.h>
 13 #include <linux/init.h>
 14 #include <linux/sort.h>
 15 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 16 
 17 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE
 18 /*
 19  * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
 20  * search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
 21  * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
 22  * the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
 23  */
 24 static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const void *b)
 25 {
 26         const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b;
 27 
 28         /* avoid overflow */
 29         if (x->insn > y->insn)
 30                 return 1;
 31         if (x->insn < y->insn)
 32                 return -1;
 33         return 0;
 34 }
 35 
 36 void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start,
 37                   struct exception_table_entry *finish)
 38 {
 39         sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry),
 40              cmp_ex, NULL);
 41 }
 42 
 43 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 44 /*
 45  * If the exception table is sorted, any referring to the module init
 46  * will be at the beginning or the end.
 47  */
 48 void trim_init_extable(struct module *m)
 49 {
 50         /*trim the beginning*/
 51         while (m->num_exentries && within_module_init(m->extable[0].insn, m)) {
 52                 m->extable++;
 53                 m->num_exentries--;
 54         }
 55         /*trim the end*/
 56         while (m->num_exentries &&
 57                 within_module_init(m->extable[m->num_exentries-1].insn, m))
 58                 m->num_exentries--;
 59 }
 60 #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 61 #endif /* !ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE */
 62 
 63 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE
 64 /*
 65  * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
 66  * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
 67  * or NULL if none is found.
 68  * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
 69  * already sorted.
 70  */
 71 const struct exception_table_entry *
 72 search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *first,
 73                const struct exception_table_entry *last,
 74                unsigned long value)
 75 {
 76         while (first <= last) {
 77                 const struct exception_table_entry *mid;
 78 
 79                 mid = ((last - first) >> 1) + first;
 80                 /*
 81                  * careful, the distance between value and insn
 82                  * can be larger than MAX_LONG:
 83                  */
 84                 if (mid->insn < value)
 85                         first = mid + 1;
 86                 else if (mid->insn > value)
 87                         last = mid - 1;
 88                 else
 89                         return mid;
 90         }
 91         return NULL;
 92 }
 93 #endif
 94 
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