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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2007-07-19 01:48:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:47 -0700
commitcbe87121f1545bb3e98ae114519bf0c4db27d6ab (patch)
tree5654badf0076dad480ae5832be943930d1cfe6a6 /arch
parentb38bd33a6bf5095736620ca8e85fe61820c2d312 (diff)
downloadlinux-cbe87121f1545bb3e98ae114519bf0c4db27d6ab.tar.gz
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 <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4dc44b8007cc..7d72cce00529 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ SECTIONS
   	__stop___ex_table = .;
   }
 
-  BUG_TABLE
+  NOTES :text :note
+
+  BUG_TABLE :text
 
   . = ALIGN(4);
   .tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
@@ -208,6 +210,4 @@ SECTIONS
   STABS_DEBUG
 
   DWARF_DEBUG
-
-  NOTES
 }