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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/elfnote.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/elfnote.h | 32 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/elfnote.h b/include/linux/elfnote.h index 16f9f8ebffd..67396db141e 100644 --- a/include/linux/elfnote.h +++ b/include/linux/elfnote.h @@ -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 <linux/elf.h> /* |