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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-06-03 16:05:44 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-06-03 16:51:37 (GMT) |
commit | d603c8e184d882cc3f55c599f4185bad956ee0a7 (patch) | |
tree | 9af00f42ddd7fbdc1192e5708caaa3ef85103175 /arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S | |
parent | 19a433f45135656d065bdf1bbe543796b194ba3a (diff) | |
download | linux-d603c8e184d882cc3f55c599f4185bad956ee0a7.tar.xz |
x86/asm/entry, x86/vdso: Move the vDSO code to arch/x86/entry/vdso/
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S')
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1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c83f257 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.S @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +/* + * This supplies .note.* sections to go into the PT_NOTE inside the vDSO text. + * Here we can supply some information useful to userland. + */ + +#include <linux/version.h> +#include <linux/elfnote.h> + +/* 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 +ELFNOTE_END + +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN +/* + * Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware + * flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the + * same way it uses real hardware capabilities like "mmx". + * We supply "nosegneg" as the fake capability, to indicate that we + * do not like negative offsets in instructions using segment overrides, + * since we implement those inefficiently. This makes it possible to + * install libraries optimized to avoid those access patterns in someplace + * like /lib/i686/tls/nosegneg. Note that an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/file + * corresponding to the bits here is needed to make ldconfig work right. + * It should contain: + * hwcap 1 nosegneg + * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here. + * + * At runtime, the fake hardware feature will be considered to be present + * if its bit is set in the mask word. So, we start with the mask 0, and + * at boot time we set VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT if running under Xen. + */ + +#include "../../xen/vdso.h" /* Defines VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT. */ + +ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a") + .long 1 /* ncaps */ +VDSO32_NOTE_MASK: /* Symbol used by arch/x86/xen/setup.c */ + .long 0 /* mask */ + .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */ +ELFNOTE_END +#endif |