From: Sean Christopherson Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 21:25:58 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86/vdso: Remove a stale/misleading comment from the linker script X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29434801e7e9c6d05fbea4533b3c0bd6be612f62;p=linux.git 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 Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 --- diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S index 0cedc905c8d67..93c6dc7812d04 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