Merge branch 'x86/build' into x86/asm, to pick up completed topic branch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@
  *	_etext = .;
  *
  *      _sdata = .;
- *	RO_DATA_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
- *	RW_DATA_SECTION(...)
+ *	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
+ *	RW_DATA(...)
  *	_edata = .;
  *
  *	EXCEPTION_TABLE(...)
- *	NOTES
  *
  *	BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0)
  *	_end = .;
@@ -54,6 +53,33 @@
 #define LOAD_OFFSET 0
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Only some architectures want to have the .notes segment visible in
+ * a separate PT_NOTE ELF Program Header. When this happens, it needs
+ * to be visible in both the kernel text's PT_LOAD and the PT_NOTE
+ * Program Headers. In this case, though, the PT_LOAD needs to be made
+ * the default again so that all the following sections don't also end
+ * up in the PT_NOTE Program Header.
+ */
+#ifdef EMITS_PT_NOTE
+#define NOTES_HEADERS		:text :note
+#define NOTES_HEADERS_RESTORE	__restore_ph : { *(.__restore_ph) } :text
+#else
+#define NOTES_HEADERS
+#define NOTES_HEADERS_RESTORE
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Some architectures have non-executable read-only exception tables.
+ * They can be added to the RO_DATA segment by specifying their desired
+ * alignment.
+ */
+#ifdef RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE	EXCEPTION_TABLE(RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN)
+#else
+#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE
+#endif
+
 /* Align . to a 8 byte boundary equals to maximum function alignment. */
 #define ALIGN_FUNCTION()  . = ALIGN(8)
 
@@ -348,7 +374,7 @@
 /*
  * Read only Data
  */
-#define RO_DATA_SECTION(align)						\
+#define RO_DATA(align)							\
 	. = ALIGN((align));						\
 	.rodata           : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
 		__start_rodata = .;					\
@@ -496,15 +522,13 @@
 		__start___modver = .;					\
 		KEEP(*(__modver))					\
 		__stop___modver = .;					\
-		. = ALIGN((align));					\
-		__end_rodata = .;					\
 	}								\
-	. = ALIGN((align));
-
-/* RODATA & RO_DATA provided for backward compatibility.
- * All archs are supposed to use RO_DATA() */
-#define RODATA          RO_DATA_SECTION(4096)
-#define RO_DATA(align)  RO_DATA_SECTION(align)
+									\
+	RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE						\
+	NOTES								\
+									\
+	. = ALIGN((align));						\
+	__end_rodata = .;
 
 /*
  * .text section. Map to function alignment to avoid address changes
@@ -790,7 +814,8 @@
 		__start_notes = .;					\
 		KEEP(*(.note.*))					\
 		__stop_notes = .;					\
-	}
+	} NOTES_HEADERS							\
+	NOTES_HEADERS_RESTORE
 
 #define INIT_SETUP(initsetup_align)					\
 		. = ALIGN(initsetup_align);				\
@@ -962,7 +987,7 @@
  * matches the requirement of PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA.
  *
  * use 0 as page_align if page_aligned data is not used */
-#define RW_DATA_SECTION(cacheline, pagealigned, inittask)		\
+#define RW_DATA(cacheline, pagealigned, inittask)			\
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);						\
 	.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {				\
 		INIT_TASK_DATA(inittask)				\