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Subject[PATCH 1 of 1] x86_43: Put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment in vmlinux
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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:00 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> This patch will pack any .note.* section into a PT_NOTE segment in the
> output file.
[...]
> This only changes i386 for now, but I presume the corresponding
> changes for other architectures will be as simple.

Here is the patch for x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xensource.com>

diff -urN ref-linux-2.6.16.13/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S x86-64_elfnotes/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
--- ref-linux-2.6.16.13/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2006-05-02 22:38:44.000000000 +0100
+++ x86-64_elfnotes/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S 2006-08-22 11:39:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64)
ENTRY(phys_startup_64)
jiffies_64 = jiffies;
+PHDRS {
+ text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5); /* R_E */
+ data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
+ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* R__ */
+}
SECTIONS
{
. = __START_KERNEL;
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@
KPROBES_TEXT
*(.fixup)
*(.gnu.warning)
- } = 0x9090
+ } :text = 0x9090
/* out-of-line lock text */
.text.lock : AT(ADDR(.text.lock) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.text.lock) }

@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data)
CONSTRUCTORS
- }
+ } :data

_edata = .; /* End of data section */

@@ -201,4 +206,6 @@
STABS_DEBUG

DWARF_DEBUG
+
+ NOTES
}

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