Commit c97db4a0 authored by Roland McGrath's avatar Roland McGrath Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] i386 vDSO: add PT_NOTE segment



This patch adds an ELF note to the vDSO giving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE
value.  Having this in the vDSO lets the dynamic linker avoid the `uname'
syscall it now always does at startup to ascertain the kernel ABI
available.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent ecd02ddd
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@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-sysenter.so = $(vsyscall-flags)
SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-int80.so	= $(vsyscall-flags)

$(obj)/vsyscall-int80.so $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.so: \
$(obj)/vsyscall-%.so: $(src)/vsyscall.lds $(obj)/vsyscall-%.o FORCE
$(obj)/vsyscall-%.so: $(src)/vsyscall.lds \
		      $(obj)/vsyscall-%.o $(obj)/vsyscall-note.o FORCE
	$(call if_changed,syscall)

# We also create a special relocatable object that should mirror the symbol
@@ -67,5 +68,6 @@ $(obj)/built-in.o: $(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o
$(obj)/built-in.o: ld_flags += -R $(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o

SYSCFLAGS_vsyscall-syms.o = -r
$(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o: $(src)/vsyscall.lds $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.o FORCE
$(obj)/vsyscall-syms.o: $(src)/vsyscall.lds \
			$(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.o $(obj)/vsyscall-note.o FORCE
	$(call if_changed,syscall)
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/*
 * This supplies .note.* sections to go into the PT_NOTE inside the vDSO text.
 * Here we can supply some information useful to userland.
 */

#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/version.h>

#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(name, flags, vendor, type)			      \
	.section name, flags;						      \
	.balign 4;							      \
	.long 1f - 0f;		/* name length */			      \
	.long 3f - 2f;		/* data length */			      \
	.long type;		/* note type */				      \
0:	.asciz vendor;		/* vendor name */			      \
1:	.balign 4;							      \
2:

#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_END						      \
3:	.balign 4;		/* pad out section */			      \
	.previous

	ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernel-version", "a", UTS_SYSNAME, 0)
	.long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
	ASM_ELF_NOTE_END
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ SECTIONS
  . = VSYSCALL_BASE + 0x400;

  .text           : { *(.text) }		:text =0x90909090

  .note		  : { *(.note.*) }		:text :note
  .eh_frame_hdr   : { *(.eh_frame_hdr) }	:text :eh_frame_hdr
  .eh_frame       : { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) }	:text
  .dynamic        : { *(.dynamic) }		:text :dynamic
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ PHDRS
{
  text PT_LOAD FILEHDR PHDRS FLAGS(5); /* PF_R|PF_X */
  dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
  note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
  eh_frame_hdr 0x6474e550; /* PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, but ld doesn't match the name */
}