aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/arch/i386
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-17 18:37:03 -0700
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 08:47:40 -0700
commit810bab448e563ffd1718d78e9a3756806b626acc (patch)
tree238983d8120772f81b5d6fd74f570608c7d53663 /arch/i386
parent86313c488a6848b7ec2ba04e74f25f79dd32a0b7 (diff)
downloadkernel_samsung_tuna-810bab448e563ffd1718d78e9a3756806b626acc.zip
kernel_samsung_tuna-810bab448e563ffd1718d78e9a3756806b626acc.tar.gz
kernel_samsung_tuna-810bab448e563ffd1718d78e9a3756806b626acc.tar.bz2
use elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes.
Use existing elfnote.h to generate vsyscall notes, rather than doing it locally. Changes elfnote.h a bit to suit, since this is the first asm user, and it wasn't quite right. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S23
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
index d4b5be4..52e0cbb 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
@@ -3,23 +3,12 @@
* Here we can supply some information useful to userland.
*/
-#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/elfnote.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)
+/* Ideally this would use UTS_NAME, but using a quoted string here
+ doesn't work. Remember to change this when changing the
+ kernel's name. */
+ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a")
.long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
- ASM_ELF_NOTE_END
+ELFNOTE_END