.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: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e96d0c49016ea6d026a614ae645e93edd325961.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Fully stripping the vDSO has other unfortunate side effects:

 - binutils is unable to find ELF notes without a SHT_NOTE section.

 - Even elfutils has trouble: it can find ELF notes without a section
   table at all, but if a section table is present, it won't look for
   PT_NOTE.

 - gdb wants section names to match between stripped DSOs and their
   symbols; otherwise it will corrupt symbol addresses.

We're also breaking the rules: section 0 is supposed to be SHT_NULL.

Fix these problems by building a better fake section table.  While
we're at it, we might as well let buggy Go versions keep working well
by giving the SHT_DYNSYM entry the correct size.

This is a bit unfortunate: it adds quite a bit of size to the vdso
image.

If/when binutils improves and the improved versions become widespread,
it would be worth considering dropping most of this.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e546a5eeaafdf1840e6ee654a55c1e727c26663.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Rather than using a separate macro for each replacement, use generic
macros.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d953cd2e70ceee1400985d091188cdd65fba2f05.1403129369.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The Go runtime has a buggy vDSO parser that currently segfaults.
This writes an empty SHT_DYNSYM entry that causes Go's runtime to
malfunction by thinking that the vDSO is empty rather than
malfunctioning by running off the end and segfaulting.

This affects x86-64 only as far as we know, so we do not need this for
the i386 and x32 vdsos.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d10618176c4bd39b457a5e85c497295c90cab1bc.1402620737.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

One final use of the macros from <endian.h> which are not available on
older system.  In this case we had one sole case of *writing* a
littleendian number, but the number is SHN_UNDEF which is the constant
zero, so rather than dealing with the general case of littleendian
puts here, just document that the constant is zero and be done with
it.
Reported-and-Tested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140610135051.c3c34165f73d67d218b62bd9@linux-foundation.org

There are no standard functions for littleendian data (unlike
bigendian data.)  Thus, use <tools/le_byteshift.h> to access
littleendian data members.  Those are fairly inefficient, but it
doesn't matter for this purpose (and can be optimized later.)  This
avoids portability problems.
Reported-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606140017.afb7f91142f66cb3dd13c186@linux-foundation.org

Make it a little clearer what the littleendian access macros in
vdso2c.[ch] actually do.  This way they can probably also be moved to
a central location (e.g. tools/include) for the benefit of other host
tools.

We should avoid implementation namespace symbols when writing code
that is compiling for the compiler host, so avoid names starting with
double underscore or underscore-capital.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2cf258df123cb24bad63c274c8563c050547d99d.1401464755.git.luto@amacapital.net

This adds a macro GET(x) to convert x from big-endian to
little-endian.  Hopefully I put it everywhere it needs to go and got
all the cases needed for everyone's linux/elf.h.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2cf258df123cb24bad63c274c8563c050547d99d.1401464755.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This avoids bizarre failures if make is run again.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1764385fe9931e8940b9d001132515448ea89523.1401464755.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Using arch_vma_name to give special mappings a name is awkward.  x86
currently implements it by comparing the start address of the vma to
the expected address of the vdso.  This requires tracking the start
address of special mappings and is probably buggy if a special vma
is split or moved.

Improve _install_special_mapping to just name the vma directly.  Use
it to give the x86 vvar area a name, which should make CRIU's life
easier.

As a side effect, the vvar area will show up in core dumps.  This
could be considered weird and is fixable.

[hpa: I say we accept this as-is but be prepared to deal with knocking
 out the vvars from core dumps if this becomes a problem.]

Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/276b39b6b645fb11e345457b503f17b83c2c6fd0.1400538962.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This unifies the vdso mapping code and teaches it how to map special
pages at addresses corresponding to symbols in the vdso image.  The
new code is used for all vdso variants, but so far only the 32-bit
variants use the new vvar page position.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6d7858ad7b5ac3fd3c29cab6d6d769bc45d195e.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Currently, vdso.so files are prepared and analyzed by a combination
of objcopy, nm, some linker script tricks, and some simple ELF
parsers in the kernel.  Replace all of that with plain C code that
runs at build time.

All five vdso images now generate .c files that are compiled and
linked in to the kernel image.

This should cause only one userspace-visible change: the loaded vDSO
images are stripped more heavily than they used to be.  Everything
outside the loadable segment is dropped.  In particular, this causes
the section table and section name strings to be missing.  This
should be fine: real dynamic loaders don't load or inspect these
tables anyway.  The result is roughly equivalent to eu-strip's
--strip-sections option.

The purpose of this change is to enable the vvar and hpet mappings
to be moved to the page following the vDSO load segment.  Currently,
it is possible for the section table to extend into the page after
the load segment, so, if we map it, it risks overlapping the vvar or
hpet page.  This happens whenever the load segment is just under a
multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

The only real subtlety here is that the old code had a C file with
inline assembler that did 'call VDSO32_vsyscall' and a linker script
that defined 'VDSO32_vsyscall = __kernel_vsyscall'.  This most
likely worked by accident: the linker script entry defines a symbol
associated with an address as opposed to an alias for the real
dynamic symbol __kernel_vsyscall.  That caused ld to relocate the
reference at link time instead of leaving an interposable dynamic
relocation.  Since the VDSO32_vsyscall hack is no longer needed, I
now use 'call __kernel_vsyscall', and I added -Bsymbolic to make it
work.  vdso2c will generate an error and abort the build if the
resulting image contains any dynamic relocations, so we won't
silently generate bad vdso images.

(Dynamic relocations are a problem because nothing will even attempt
to relocate the vdso.)
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c4fcf45524162a34d87fdda1eb046b2a5cecee7.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>