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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-18 10:18:39 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-18 10:18:39 -0700 |
commit | 5cc97bf2d8eaa6cab60727c3eba3e85e29062669 (patch) | |
tree | 975976f2cb37b932d65440e6fb9960be93fc0bd7 /arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S | |
parent | 826ea8f22cf612d534f33c492c98f7895043bfd1 (diff) | |
parent | dfdcdd42fdf63452ddd1bed6f49ae2a35dfb5d6c (diff) |
Merge branch 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen
* 'xen-upstream' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: (44 commits)
xen: disable all non-virtual drivers
xen: use iret directly when possible
xen: suppress abs symbol warnings for unused reloc pointers
xen: Attempt to patch inline versions of common operations
xen: Place vcpu_info structure into per-cpu memory
xen: handle external requests for shutdown, reboot and sysrq
xen: machine operations
xen: add virtual network device driver
xen: add virtual block device driver.
xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver
xen: Add grant table support
xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console
xen: hack to prevent bad segment register reload
xen: lazy-mmu operations
xen: Add support for preemption
xen: SMP guest support
xen: Implement sched_clock
xen: Account for stolen time
xen: ignore RW mapping of RO pages in pagetable_init
xen: Complete pagetable pinning
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S | 49 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S index d4b5be4f3d5..271f16a8ca0 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S @@ -3,23 +3,40 @@ * Here we can supply some information useful to userland. */ -#include <linux/uts.h> #include <linux/version.h> +#include <linux/elfnote.h> -#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(name, flags, vendor, type) \ - .section name, flags; \ - .balign 4; \ - .long 1f - 0f; /* name length */ \ - .long 3f - 2f; /* data length */ \ - .long type; /* note type */ \ -0: .asciz vendor; /* vendor name */ \ -1: .balign 4; \ -2: +/* Ideally this would use UTS_NAME, but using a quoted string here + doesn't work. Remember to change this when changing the + kernel's name. */ +ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a") + .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE +ELFNOTE_END -#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_END \ -3: .balign 4; /* pad out section */ \ - .previous +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN - ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernel-version", "a", UTS_SYSNAME, 0) - .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE - ASM_ELF_NOTE_END +/* + * Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware + * flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the + * same way it uses real hardware capabilities like "mmx". + * We supply "nosegneg" as the fake capability, to indicate that we + * do not like negative offsets in instructions using segment overrides, + * since we implement those inefficiently. This makes it possible to + * install libraries optimized to avoid those access patterns in someplace + * like /lib/i686/tls/nosegneg. Note that an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/file + * corresponding to the bits here is needed to make ldconfig work right. + * It should contain: + * hwcap 1 nosegneg + * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here. + */ + +/* Bit used for the pseudo-hwcap for non-negative segments. We use + bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc when bit 0 is + used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary. */ +#define VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT 1 + +ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a") + .long 1, 1<<VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT /* ncaps, mask */ + .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */ +ELFNOTE_END +#endif |