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>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 4dc44b8..7d72cce 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@
__stop___ex_table = .;
}
- BUG_TABLE
+ NOTES :text :note
+
+ BUG_TABLE :text
. = ALIGN(4);
.tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
@@ -208,6 +210,4 @@
STABS_DEBUG
DWARF_DEBUG
-
- NOTES
}
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index a2b09ed8..0240e05 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) \