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    x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options · 7ea3d2e9
    Tony Luck authored Feb 17, 2016
    [ Upstream commit 548acf19
    
     ]
    
    Huge amounts of help from  Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
    produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
    exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
    out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.
    
    Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:
    
      ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
        in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '
    
    The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
    handler that executes the actions.
    
    We start out with three handlers:
    
     1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
     2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
     3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
    7ea3d2e9
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