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
next prev parent 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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