3 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0147c91fa549..874132b26d23 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -269,7 +269,8 @@ our $Sparse	= qr{
 			__init_refok|
 			__kprobes|
 			__ref|
-			__rcu
+			__rcu|
+			__private
 		}x;
 our $InitAttributePrefix = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)};
 our $InitAttributeData = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initdata\b)};
diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index d154f0877fd8..7bfe9fa1c8dc 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/awk -f
 # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
 	{
-	gsub(".*)", "");
+	gsub(".*\\)", "");
 	gsub(".*version ", "");
 	gsub("-.*", "");
 	split($1,a, ".");
diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
index c2423d913b46..7b29fb14f870 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.c
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
@@ -209,6 +209,35 @@ static int compare_relative_table(const void *a, const void *b)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void x86_sort_relative_table(char *extab_image, int image_size)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	i = 0;
+	while (i < image_size) {
+		uint32_t *loc = (uint32_t *)(extab_image + i);
+
+		w(r(loc) + i, loc);
+		w(r(loc + 1) + i + 4, loc + 1);
+		w(r(loc + 2) + i + 8, loc + 2);
+
+		i += sizeof(uint32_t) * 3;
+	}
+
+	qsort(extab_image, image_size / 12, 12, compare_relative_table);
+
+	i = 0;
+	while (i < image_size) {
+		uint32_t *loc = (uint32_t *)(extab_image + i);
+
+		w(r(loc) - i, loc);
+		w(r(loc + 1) - (i + 4), loc + 1);
+		w(r(loc + 2) - (i + 8), loc + 2);
+
+		i += sizeof(uint32_t) * 3;
+	}
+}
+
 static void sort_relative_table(char *extab_image, int image_size)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -281,6 +310,9 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
 		break;
 	case EM_386:
 	case EM_X86_64:
+		custom_sort = x86_sort_relative_table;
+		break;
+
 	case EM_S390:
 		custom_sort = sort_relative_table;
 		break;