From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rth@twiddle.net, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sort exception tables
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:38:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119093823.68f94083.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16395.47717.472261.52870@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:07:17 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> I have tested this on x86 and ppc with a module that uses __get_user
> in an init function, deliberately laid out to get the exception table
> out of order, and it works (whereas it oopsed without this patch).
I have no objections to this patch, however I'd like to be reminded why we
desire to sort this stuff, performance?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 11:07 Paul Mackerras
2004-01-19 17:38 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-01-19 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-19 11:35 "Kirill Korotaev"
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