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author | Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> | 2008-01-30 13:30:42 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-01-30 13:30:42 +0100 |
commit | 0c2f51a7d2546f65e4198cccd6a56e2a8b857677 (patch) | |
tree | 6b2b39b317f4799faf64328353ba796ae8827ac5 /arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S | |
parent | 108b545137b03ec1d6a5765017d57f86056bf57c (diff) |
x86 vDSO: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32
This moves the i386 vDSO sources into arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/, a
new directory. This patch is a pure renaming, but paves the way
for consolidating the vDSO build logic.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S | 45 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0cf934f2633 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note.S @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +/* + * This supplies .note.* sections to go into the PT_NOTE inside the vDSO text. + * Here we can supply some information useful to userland. + */ + +#include <linux/version.h> +#include <linux/elfnote.h> + +/* 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 + +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN +/* + * 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. + * + * At runtime, the fake hardware feature will be considered to be present + * if its bit is set in the mask word. So, we start with the mask 0, and + * at boot time we set VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT if running under Xen. + */ + +#include "../../xen/vdso.h" /* Defines VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT. */ + + .globl VDSO_NOTE_MASK +ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a") + .long 1 /* ncaps */ +VDSO_NOTE_MASK: + .long 0 /* mask */ + .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */ +ELFNOTE_END +#endif |