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alpha: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment
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This changes the alpha linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro so
that ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image
along with other read-only data.  The PT_NOTE also points to their location.

This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 19, 2007
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
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OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-alpha")
OUTPUT_ARCH(alpha)
ENTRY(__start)
PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD ; }
PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD; note PT_NOTE; }
jiffies = jiffies_64;
SECTIONS
{
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__ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
__stop___ex_table = .;

NOTES :kernel :note
.dummy : { *(.dummy) } :kernel

RODATA

/* Will be freed after init */
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