extable: skip sorting if the table is empty
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>
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index 67460b9..832cb28 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
/* 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);
}