From 0bf63993544a11ff94a8cb0caa1441b7497cf231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Campbell Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:25 +0100 Subject: [LINUX] Define ELFNOTE as a preprocessor macro rather than an assembler macro Assembler .macros have various issues with string arguments and :varargs. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell --- patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series | 1 + .../x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch (limited to 'patches') diff --git a/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series index 12af0f7312..63774a0bd7 100644 --- a/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series +++ b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series @@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ xen-hotplug.patch xenoprof-generic.patch x86-put-note-sections-into-a-pt_note-segment-in-vmlinux.patch x86_64-put-note-sections-into-a-pt_note-segment-in-vmlinux.patch +x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch diff --git a/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..208573b424 --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ + +diff -r 4b7cd997c08f include/linux/elfnote.h +--- a/include/linux/elfnote.h Wed Aug 23 11:48:46 2006 +0100 ++++ b/include/linux/elfnote.h Wed Aug 23 12:44:27 2006 +0100 +@@ -31,22 +31,24 @@ + /* + * Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which + * turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and +- * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desc' argument includes +- * the assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data: .asciz +- * "hello, world" ++ * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desctype' argument is the ++ * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while ++ * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g. "hello, world". ++ * ++ * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two") ++ * ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef) + */ +-.macro ELFNOTE name type desc:vararg +-.pushsection ".note.\name" +- .align 4 +- .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ +- .long 4f - 3f /* descsz */ +- .long \type +-1:.asciz "\name" +-2:.align 4 +-3:\desc +-4:.align 4 +-.popsection +-.endm ++#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata) \ ++.pushsection .note.name ; \ ++ .align 4 ; \ ++ .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ ; \ ++ .long 4f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \ ++ .long type ; \ ++1:.asciz "name" ; \ ++2:.align 4 ; \ ++3:desctype descdata ; \ ++4:.align 4 ; \ ++.popsection ; + #else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */ + #include + /* -- cgit v1.2.3