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| author |   Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> | 2020-04-27 17:13:34 +0200 |
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| committer |   Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> | 2020-05-04 14:22:34 -0700 |
| commit | 0a9f2a6161dcd6be057f6c501453d28b3c4a3b0c (patch) | |
| tree | 88aeef0ecf9413f999a43f48a49a5f8e8941cedb /arch | |
| parent | riscv: set max_pfn to the PFN of the last page (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0a9f2a6161dcd6be057f6c501453d28b3c4a3b0c.tar.xz linux-dev-0a9f2a6161dcd6be057f6c501453d28b3c4a3b0c.zip | |
riscv: add Linux note to vdso
The Linux note in the vdso allows glibc to check the running kernel
version without having to issue the uname syscall.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S | 12 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile index a4ee3a0e7d20..4c8b2a4a6a70 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ vdso-syms += getcpu vdso-syms += flush_icache # Files to link into the vdso -obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms)) +obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms)) note.o # Build rules targets := $(obj-vdso) vdso.so vdso.so.dbg vdso.lds vdso-dummy.o diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2a956c942211 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ +/* + * 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/elfnote.h> +#include <linux/version.h> + +ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a") + .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE +ELFNOTE_END |