Re: [PATCH 6/7] Add /sys/kernel/notes

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 22:42:24 EST


Roland McGrath wrote:
The earlier patches in this series change the linker script to place it
appropriately and set the phdr. It's allocated when its input sections are
allocated. Current builds I've seen don't have any input note sections at
all. My motivation is for the ld --build-id support, which generates an
allocated note section as if it were input.

OK, I see.

I have a patch to always do this, and also convert all the note generation to C code rather than asm. If your patch works for you, however, it should be completely orthogonal.

What note generation do you mean? The only explicit notes in asm that I
know of are in the vDSO images, not in vmlinux. This patch has nothing to
do with any vDSO image's generation.

I'm adding other notes for Xen, so I have some in my tree. But the vdso ones could also be generated in C rather than asm. I'm not sure what stage the patch to convert vsyscall-notes to using linux/elfnote.h is at; I think its in Andi's tree.

J
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