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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2018-12-04 13:25:58 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-12-05 08:58:12 +0100
commit29434801e7e9c6d05fbea4533b3c0bd6be612f62 (patch)
treef665d56e22c79f7a190582ab7b69e1db5fdc0347 /arch/x86/entry
parent24b7c77bbb24f129beead93574ff248c3db1288e (diff)
x86/vdso: Remove a stale/misleading comment from the linker script
Once upon a time, vdso2c aggressively stripped data from the vDSO image when generating the final userspace image. This included stripping the .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections. Eventually, the stripping process reverted to "objdump -S" and no longer removed the aforementioned sections, but the comment remained. Keeping the .alt* sections at the end of the PT_LOAD segment is no longer necessary, but there's no harm in doing so and it's a helpful reminder that they don't need to be included in the final vDSO image, i.e. someone may want to take another stab at zapping/stripping the unneeded sections. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: da861e18eccc ("x86, vdso: Get rid of the fake section mechanism") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204212600.28090-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
index 0cedc905c8d6..93c6dc7812d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
@@ -65,11 +65,6 @@ SECTIONS
.text : { *(.text*) } :text =0x90909090,
- /*
- * At the end so that eu-elflint stays happy when vdso2c strips
- * these. A better implementation would avoid allocating space
- * for these.
- */
.altinstructions : { *(.altinstructions) } :text
.altinstr_replacement : { *(.altinstr_replacement) } :text