From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: add Linux note to vdso
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:13:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmpnbtrmg1.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
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>
---
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/note.S
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 33b16f4212f7..281dc58189e0 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
--
2.26.2
--
Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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2020-04-27 15:13 Andreas Schwab [this message]
2020-05-04 21:28 ` [PATCH] riscv: add Linux note to vdso Palmer Dabbelt
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