patch-2.4.0-test10 linux/Documentation/exception.txt

• Lines: 10
• Date: Mon Oct 16 12:26:52 2000
• Orig file: v2.4.0-test9/linux/Documentation/exception.txt
• Orig date: Fri Jul 14 16:08:11 2000

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test9/linux/Documentation/exception.txt linux/Documentation/exception.txt
@@ -284,3 +284,9 @@
 successful, -EFAULT on failure. Our original code did not test this
 return value, however the inline assembly code in get_user tries to
 return -EFAULT. GCC selected EAX to return this value.
+
+NOTE:
+Due to the way that the exception table is built and needs to be ordered,
+only use exceptions for code in the .text section.  Any other section
+will cause the exception table to not be sorted correctly, and the
+exceptions will fail.