2 files changed, 21 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
index d4b5be4f3d5f..52e0cbbac70c 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
@@ -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
diff --git a/include/linux/elfnote.h b/include/linux/elfnote.h
index 9a1e0674e56c..e831759b2fb5 100644
--- a/include/linux/elfnote.h
+++ b/include/linux/elfnote.h
@@ -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>
 /*