The .discard/.discard.* sections are used to generate intermediate
results for the assembler (effectively "test assembly".) The output
is waste and should not be retained.
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-psizrnant8x3nrhbgvq2vekr@git.kernel.org
This patch add the time support for 32 bit a VDSO to a 32 bit kernel.
For 32 bit programs running on a 32 bit kernel, the same mechanism is
used as for 64 bit programs running on a 64 bit kernel.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-10-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
compatibility with a small range of glibc versions.
This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
This also changes the default value of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO to n --
users configuring kernels from scratch almost certainly want that
choice.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4bb4690899106eb11430b1186d5cc66ca9d1660c.1394751608.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This revamps the vDSO linker script to lay things out with the best
packing of the data and good, separate alignment of the code. The
rigid layout using VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET no longer matters to the kernel.
I've moved the layout parts of the linker script into a new include
file, vdso-layout.lds.S; this is in preparation for sharing the script
for the 32-bit vDSO builds too.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
