[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1 of 1] x86_43: Put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment in vmlinux

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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