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use elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes.

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Use existing elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes, rather than doing
it locally.  Changes elfnote.h a bit to suit, since this is the first
asm user, and it wasn't quite right.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-07-17 18:37:03 -07:00 committed by Jeremy Fitzhardinge
parent 86313c488a
commit 810bab448e
2 changed files with 21 additions and 24 deletions
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arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
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@ -3,23 +3,12 @@
* Here we can supply some information useful to userland.
*/
#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
#include <linux/elfnote.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)
/* Ideally this would use UTS_NAME, but using a quoted string here
doesn't work. Remember to change this when changing the
kernel's name. */
ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a")
.long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
ASM_ELF_NOTE_END
ELFNOTE_END

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include/linux/elfnote.h
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@ -38,17 +38,25 @@
* e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
* ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
*/
#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata) \
.pushsection .note.name, "",@note ; \
.align 4 ; \
#define ELFNOTE_START(name, type, flags) \
.pushsection .note.name, flags,@note ; \
.balign 4 ; \
.long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ ; \
.long 4f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \
.long 4484f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \
.long type ; \
1:.asciz #name ; \
2:.align 4 ; \
3:desctype descdata ; \
4:.align 4 ; \
2:.balign 4 ; \
3:
#define ELFNOTE_END \
4484:.balign 4 ; \
.popsection ;
#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desc) \
ELFNOTE_START(name, type, "") \
desc ; \
ELFNOTE_END
#else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
#include <linux/elf.h>
/*