[PATCH] powerpc: do not use kprobe section to exempt exception handlers

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Sep 16 13:45:05 AEST 2016


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:

> Use the blacklist macros instead. This allows the linker to move
> exception handler functions close to callers and avoids trampolines in
> larger kernels.

Nice, that's been on my todo list for eva.

Can you do the asm ones too? See _KPROBE() in misc_32/64.S.

cheers


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