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linux-next/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
Roland McGrath c97db4a0a7 [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>
2005-04-16 15:24:48 -07:00

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/*
* 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/uts.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(name, flags, vendor, type) \
.section name, flags; \
.balign 4; \
.long 1f - 0f; /* name length */ \
.long 3f - 2f; /* data length */ \
.long type; /* note type */ \
0: .asciz vendor; /* vendor name */ \
1: .balign 4; \
2:
#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_END \
3: .balign 4; /* pad out section */ \
.previous
ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernel-version", "a", UTS_SYSNAME, 0)
.long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
ASM_ELF_NOTE_END