linux-kernel - [PATCH for review] [38/48] x86_64: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment

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Message-Id: <20070719134908.F29C614E6E@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:49:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	roland@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH for review] [38/48] x86_64: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment


From: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>

This changes the x86_64 linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro so
that ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image
along with other read-only data.  The PT_NOTE also points to their location.

This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ SECTIONS
   __ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(__ex_table) }
   __stop___ex_table = .;
 
-  BUG_TABLE
+  NOTES :text :note
+
+  BUG_TABLE :text
 
   RODATA
 
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