From cbe87121f1545bb3e98ae114519bf0c4db27d6ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:48:36 -0700 Subject: i386: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment This changes the i386 linker script and the asm-generic macro it uses 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 Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h') diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index a2b09ed852a..0240e0506a0 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ } #define NOTES \ - .notes : { *(.note.*) } :note + .notes : AT(ADDR(.notes) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_notes) = .; \ + *(.note.*) \ + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_notes) = .; \ + } #define INITCALLS \ *(.initcall0.init) \ -- cgit v1.2.2