From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:48:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: alpha: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~392
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=caf45dd92677b2001123cc06b5835052ccfee76f;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

alpha: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment

This changes the alpha linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro 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: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 6f4f0378e70..fe13daa5cb2 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-alpha")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(alpha)
 ENTRY(__start)
-PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD ; }
+PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD; note PT_NOTE; }
 jiffies = jiffies_64;
 SECTIONS
 {
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ SECTIONS
   __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
   __stop___ex_table = .;
 
+  NOTES :kernel :note
+  .dummy : { *(.dummy) } :kernel
+
   RODATA
 
   /* Will be freed after init */