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: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt |  33 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h             |  40 +++++++------
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h         |  16 +++---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c                |   6 +-
 arch/x86/mm/extable.c                  | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c                    |   2 +-
 scripts/sortextable.c                  |  32 +++++++++++
 8 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt b/Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt
index 32901aa36f0a..d4ca5f8b22ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/exception-tables.txt

@@ -290,3 +290,36 @@ 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.
+
+Things changed when 64-bit support was added to x86 Linux. Rather than
+double the size of the exception table by expanding the two entries
+from 32-bits to 64 bits, a clever trick was used to store addreesses

+   in the task structure. Before the handler functions existed this
+   case was handled by adding a large offset to the fixup to tag
+   it as special.
+More functions can easily be added.

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
index 189679aba703..f5063b6659eb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h

@@ -44,19 +44,22 @@
 
 /* Exception table entry */
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
-# define _ASM_EXTABLE(from,to)					\
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, handler)			\
 	.pushsection "__ex_table","a" ;				\
-	.balign 8 ;						\
+	.balign 4 ;						\
 	.long (from) - . ;					\
 	.long (to) - . ;					\
+	.long (handler) - . ;					\
 	.popsection
 
-# define _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(from,to)				\
-	.pushsection "__ex_table","a" ;				\
-	.balign 8 ;						\
-	.long (from) - . ;					\
-	.long (to) - . + 0x7ffffff0 ;				\
-	.popsection
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE(from, to)					\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_default)
+
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT(from, to)				\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_fault)
+
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(from, to)				\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_ext)
 
 # define _ASM_NOKPROBE(entry)					\
 	.pushsection "_kprobe_blacklist","aw" ;			\

@@ -89,19 +92,24 @@
 	.endm
 
 #else
-# define _ASM_EXTABLE(from,to)					\
+# define _EXPAND_EXTABLE_HANDLE(x) #x
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, handler)			\
 	" .pushsection \"__ex_table\",\"a\"\n"			\
-	" .balign 8\n"						\
+	" .balign 4\n"						\
 	" .long (" #from ") - .\n"				\
 	" .long (" #to ") - .\n"				\
+	" .long (" _EXPAND_EXTABLE_HANDLE(handler) ") - .\n"	\
 	" .popsection\n"
 
-# define _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(from,to)				\
-	" .pushsection \"__ex_table\",\"a\"\n"			\
-	" .balign 8\n"						\
-	" .long (" #from ") - .\n"				\
-	" .long (" #to ") - . + 0x7ffffff0\n"			\
-	" .popsection\n"
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE(from, to)					\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_default)
+
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT(from, to)				\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_fault)
+
+# define _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(from, to)				\
+	_ASM_EXTABLE_HANDLE(from, to, ex_handler_ext)
+
 /* For C file, we already have NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro */
 #endif
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
index a4a30e4b2d34..cbcc3b3e034c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h

@@ -90,12 +90,11 @@ static inline bool __chk_range_not_ok(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, un
 	likely(!__range_not_ok(addr, size, user_addr_max()))
 
 /*
- * The exception table consists of pairs of addresses relative to the
- * exception table enty itself: the first is the address of an
- * instruction that is allowed to fault, and the second is the address
- * at which the program should continue.  No registers are modified,
- * so it is entirely up to the continuation code to figure out what to
- * do.
+ * The exception table consists of triples of addresses relative to the
+ * exception table enty itself. The first address is of an instruction