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[PATCH v7 14/14] x86: Discard .note.gnu.property sections

From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-06 20:18:33
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: "H.J. Lu" <redacted>

With the command-line option, -mx86-used-note=yes, the x86 assembler
in binutils 2.32 and above generates a program property note in a note
section, .note.gnu.property, to encode used x86 ISAs and features.
To exclude .note.gnu.property sections from NOTE segment in x86 kernel
linker script:

PHDRS {
 text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5);
 data PT_LOAD FLAGS(6);
 percpu PT_LOAD FLAGS(6);
 init PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);
 note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0);
}
SECTIONS
{
...
 .notes : AT(ADDR(.notes) - 0xffffffff80000000) { __start_notes = .; KEEP(*(.not
e.*)) __stop_notes = .; } :text :note
...
}

this patch discards .note.gnu.property sections in kernel linker script
by adding

 /DISCARD/ : {
  *(.note.gnu.property)
 }

before .notes sections.  Since .exit.text and .exit.data sections are
discarded at runtime, it undefines EXIT_TEXT and EXIT_DATA to exclude
.exit.text and .exit.data sections from default discarded sections.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 0850b5149345..d2594b482c09 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* End of text section */
 	_etext = .;
 
+	/* .note.gnu.property sections should be discarded */
+	/DISCARD/ : {
+		*(.note.gnu.property)
+	}
 	NOTES :text :note
 
 	EXCEPTION_TABLE(16) :text = 0x9090
@@ -382,7 +386,12 @@ SECTIONS
 	STABS_DEBUG
 	DWARF_DEBUG
 
-	/* Sections to be discarded */
+	/* Sections to be discarded.  EXIT_TEXT and EXIT_DATA discard at runtime.
+	 * not link time.  */
+#undef EXIT_TEXT
+#define EXIT_TEXT
+#undef EXIT_DATA
+#define EXIT_DATA
 	DISCARDS
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.eh_frame)
-- 
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