From 0e3727a8839c988a3c56170bc8da76d55a16acad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:59:49 -0700 Subject: x86/vdso: Remove some redundant in-memory section headers .data doesn't need to be separate from .rodata: they're both readonly. .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement aren't needed by anything except vdso2c; strip them from the final image. While we're at it, rather than aligning the actual executable text, just shove some unused-at-runtime data in between real data and text. My vdso image is still above 4k, but I'm disinclined to try to trim it harder for 3.16. For future trimming, I suspect that these sections could be moved to later in the file and dropped from the in-memory image: .gnu.version and .gnu.version_d (this may lose versions in gdb) .eh_frame (should be harmless) .eh_frame_hdr (I'm not really sure) .hash (AFAIK nothing needs this section header) Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e96d0c49016ea6d026a614ae645e93edd325961.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h index f01ed4bde88..f42e2ddc663 100644 --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h @@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ static void BITSFUNC(copy_section)(struct BITSFUNC(fake_sections) *out, { uint64_t flags = GET_LE(&in->sh_flags); - bool copy = flags & SHF_ALLOC; + bool copy = flags & SHF_ALLOC && + strcmp(name, ".altinstructions") && + strcmp(name, ".altinstr_replacement"); if (!copy) return; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2