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From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:21:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448943679-3412-2-git-send-email-jeyu@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1448943679-3412-1-git-send-email-jeyu@redhat.com>

Add livepatch Elf relocation section flag (SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH), livepatch
symbol bind (STB_LIVEPATCH_EXT) and section index (SHN_LIVEPATCH).
The values of these Elf constants were selected from OS-specific ranges
according to the definitions from glibc.

Livepatch relocation sections are marked with SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH to
indicate to the module loader that it should not apply that relocation
section and that livepatch will handle them.

The SHN_LIVEPATCH shndx marks symbols that will be resolved by livepatch.
The module loader ignores these symbols and does not attempt to resolve
them.

The STB_LIVEPATCH_EXT symbol bind marks the scope of certain livepatch
symbols, so that livepatch can appropriately resolve them.

Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
index 71e1d0e..95ff318 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
@@ -115,9 +115,10 @@ typedef __s64	Elf64_Sxword;
 #define DT_HIPROC	0x7fffffff
 
 /* This info is needed when parsing the symbol table */
-#define STB_LOCAL  0
-#define STB_GLOBAL 1
-#define STB_WEAK   2
+#define STB_LOCAL		0
+#define STB_GLOBAL		1
+#define STB_WEAK		2
+#define STB_LIVEPATCH_EXT	11
 
 #define STT_NOTYPE  0
 #define STT_OBJECT  1
@@ -282,16 +283,18 @@ typedef struct elf64_phdr {
 #define SHT_HIUSER	0xffffffff
 
 /* sh_flags */
-#define SHF_WRITE	0x1
-#define SHF_ALLOC	0x2
-#define SHF_EXECINSTR	0x4
-#define SHF_MASKPROC	0xf0000000
+#define SHF_WRITE		0x1
+#define SHF_ALLOC		0x2
+#define SHF_EXECINSTR		0x4
+#define SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH	0x00100000
+#define SHF_MASKPROC		0xf0000000
 
 /* special section indexes */
 #define SHN_UNDEF	0
 #define SHN_LORESERVE	0xff00
 #define SHN_LOPROC	0xff00
 #define SHN_HIPROC	0xff1f
+#define SHN_LIVEPATCH	0xff20
 #define SHN_ABS		0xfff1
 #define SHN_COMMON	0xfff2
 #define SHN_HIRESERVE	0xffff
-- 
2.4.3


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01  4:21 [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch Jessica Yu
2015-12-01  4:21 ` Jessica Yu [this message]
2015-12-01  4:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules Jessica Yu
2015-12-01  8:48   ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-01 21:06   ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-08 18:32   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] " Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-09 20:05     ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-10 14:38       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-16 10:46         ` Miroslav Benes
2015-12-17 16:28     ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] " Petr Mladek
2015-12-16 10:58   ` Miroslav Benes
2015-12-17  0:40     ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-17 16:26   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] " Petr Mladek
2015-12-21  5:44     ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-01  4:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific " Jessica Yu
2015-12-16 12:02   ` Miroslav Benes
2015-12-16 23:48     ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-17 11:39       ` Miroslav Benes
2015-12-01  4:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations Jessica Yu
2015-12-01  8:43   ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-08 18:38   ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] " Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-09 19:10     ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-10 14:28       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-10 21:33         ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-10 21:41           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-10 22:07             ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-16  5:40       ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-16 12:59         ` Miroslav Benes
2015-12-16 19:14           ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-17 15:45         ` Petr Mladek
2015-12-21  5:57           ` Jessica Yu
2015-12-10 14:20   ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] " Minfei Huang
2015-12-10 19:56     ` Jiri Kosina
2015-12-10 21:12       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-01  4:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/6] samples: livepatch: init reloc section array and mark as klp module Jessica Yu
2015-12-08 18:41   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-12-01  4:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] Documentation: livepatch: outline the Elf format of a livepatch module Jessica Yu

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