x86_64: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:48:37 +0000 (01:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
commit2e1d5b8f24a887caded5ae3ceb2f341d4fbd1861
tree8823e9f0a41498a1c114772713099018073eb288
parentcbe87121f1545bb3e98ae114519bf0c4db27d6ab
x86_64: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment

This changes the x86_64 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: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S