[PATCH] i386 vDSO: add PT_NOTE segment
This patch adds an ELF note to the vDSO giving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE
value. Having this in the vDSO lets the dynamic linker avoid the `uname'
syscall it now always does at startup to ascertain the kernel ABI
available.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds.S
index 3a8329d..a797770 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall.lds.S
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
. = VSYSCALL_BASE + 0x400;
.text : { *(.text) } :text =0x90909090
-
+ .note : { *(.note.*) } :text :note
.eh_frame_hdr : { *(.eh_frame_hdr) } :text :eh_frame_hdr
.eh_frame : { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) } :text
.dynamic : { *(.dynamic) } :text :dynamic
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
{
text PT_LOAD FILEHDR PHDRS FLAGS(5); /* PF_R|PF_X */
dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
+ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
eh_frame_hdr 0x6474e550; /* PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, but ld doesn't match the name */
}