This adds a const to the definitions vvar.c makes, so that the vdso_*
variables go into .rodata instead of .data. This is essentially a
cosmetic change, just giving the section headers in the vDSO file more
pleasing flags. These variables are read-only from the perspective of
the vDSO itself and user mode, even though the contents of the DSO image
were adjusted at boot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This keeps an unstripped copy of the 64bit vDSO images built before they are
stripped and embedded in the kernel. The unstripped copies get installed
in $(MODLIB)/vdso/ by "make install" (or you can explicitly use the
subtarget "make vdso_install"). These files can be useful when they
contain source-level debugging information.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.
This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.
One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.
Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k
Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
