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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 v3 1/6] Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 2016 14:28:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452281304-28618-2-git-send-email-jeyu@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452281304-28618-1-git-send-email-jeyu@redhat.com>

Add livepatch Elf relocation section flag (SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH), and symbol
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.

Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
index 71e1d0e..cb4a72f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
@@ -282,16 +282,18 @@ 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:[~2016-01-08 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08 19:28 [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch Jessica Yu
2016-01-08 19:28 ` Jessica Yu [this message]
2016-01-08 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/6] module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules Jessica Yu
2016-01-11  1:25   ` Rusty Russell
2016-01-14  4:47     ` Jessica Yu
2016-01-14 20:28       ` Rusty Russell
2016-01-08 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific " Jessica Yu
2016-01-08 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations Jessica Yu
2016-01-11 16:56   ` Petr Mladek
2016-01-11 20:53     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-01-11 21:33   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-01-11 22:35     ` Jessica Yu
2016-01-12  3:05       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-01-12  9:12         ` Petr Mladek
2016-01-14  5:07         ` Jessica Yu
2016-01-12 16:40   ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] " Miroslav Benes
2016-01-14  3:49     ` Jessica Yu
2016-01-14  9:04       ` Miroslav Benes
2016-01-13  9:19   ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] " Miroslav Benes
2016-01-13  9:31     ` Jiri Kosina
2016-01-13 18:39     ` Jessica Yu
2016-01-14  9:10       ` Miroslav Benes
2016-01-08 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] samples: livepatch: mark as livepatch module Jessica Yu
2016-01-08 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/6] Documentation: livepatch: outline the Elf format of a " Jessica Yu
2016-01-12 12:09   ` Petr Mladek
2016-01-12 14:45     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-01-14  5:04     ` Jessica Yu

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