extable: skip sorting if the table is empty
authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:23:27 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:58:25 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
At least on ARM no-MMU the extable is empty and so there is nothing to
sort. So add a check for the table to be empty which effectively only
changes that the misleading pr_notice is suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/extable.c

index 67460b9..832cb28 100644 (file)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ u32 __initdata main_extable_sort_needed = 1;
 /* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */
 void __init sort_main_extable(void)
 {
-       if (main_extable_sort_needed) {
+       if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) {
                pr_notice("Sorting __ex_table...\n");
                sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
        }