[PATCH 4/8] x86: add .broken section to the vDSO linker script

[Petr Tesarik]

This section should not contain anything unless the vDSO is
broken. It is intended to hold sections which are known not
to work correctly inside a vDSO.

If such a "broken" section is found at link-time, the linker
issues an error with a hint how to find out more.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
index 0386c92..23da4a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
@@ -70,8 +70,30 @@ SECTIONS
 	.text : {
 		*(.text* .gnu.linkonce.t.*)
 	} :text	=0x90909090
+
+	/* Some sections require some additional work from the dynamic
+	 * linker to work properly. However, there is no dynamic-link
+	 * pass for the vDSO, so these sections will not work.
+	 * Put them into a special section and raise a link-time error
+	 * if they get used by accident.
+	 */
+	.broken : {
+	}
 }
 
+/* This assert is triggered if the linker finds a section in one of its
+ * input files which is known not to work inside a vDSO.
+ *
+ * To see which is the offending sections, you may:
+ *   a. use objdump -h on the object files which make up the vDSO, or
+ *   b. add -Wl,-M to VDSO_LDFLAGS and examine the linker map.
+ *
+ * See individual comments in the definition of the .broken section
+ * above for more information on why any given section is considered
+ * "broken".
+ */
+ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.broken), "The vdso linker script found a section that is bad. See vdso-layout.lds.S for details.");
+
 /*
  * Very old versions of ld do not recognize this name token; use the constant.
  */
-- 
1.6.0.2

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