linux-kernel - [PATCH] [40/40] i386: Clean up ELF note generation

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Message-Id: <20070430102815.8E5D7151D2@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:28:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	jeremy@...p.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, patches@...-64.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [40/40] i386: Clean up ELF note generation


From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Three cleanups:

1: ELF notes are never mapped, so there's no need to have any access
flags in their phdr.

2: When generating them from asm, tell the assembler to use a SHT_NOTE
section type.  There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from C.

3: Use ANSI rather than traditional cpp behaviour to stringify the
macro argument.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

---
 arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S    |    2 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    2 +-
 include/linux/elfnote.h           |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

===================================================================
Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jiffies = jiffies_64;
 PHDRS {
 	text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5);	/* R_E */
 	data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);	/* RWE */
-	note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4);	/* R__ */
+	note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);	/* ___ */
 }
 SECTIONS
 {
Index: linux/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ linux/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 	}
 
 #define NOTES								\
-		.notes : { *(.note.*) } :note
+	.notes : { *(.note.*) } :note
 
 #define INITCALLS							\
   	*(.initcall0.init)						\
Index: linux/include/linux/elfnote.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/elfnote.h
+++ linux/include/linux/elfnote.h
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
  *      ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
  */
 #define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata)	\
-.pushsection .note.name			;	\
+.pushsection .note.name, "",@note	;	\
   .align 4				;	\
   .long 2f - 1f		/* namesz */	;	\
   .long 4f - 3f		/* descsz */	;	\
   .long type				;	\
-1:.asciz "name"				;	\
+1:.asciz #name				;	\
 2:.align 4				;	\
 3:desctype descdata			;	\
 4:.align 4				;	\
-
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