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.
Fixes: da861e18eccc ("x86, vdso: Get rid of the fake section mechanism")
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopher...@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
index 0cedc905c8d6..93c6dc7812d0 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
--
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