[PATCH 1/1] Replace macro "ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES" with kconfig

Vignesh Balasubramanian vigbalas at amd.com
Fri Apr 12 16:21:39 AEST 2024


"ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES" enables an extra note section in the
core dump. Kconfig variable is preferred over ARCH_HAVE_* macro.

Co-developed-by: Jini Susan George <jinisusan.george at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jini Susan George <jinisusan.george at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Vignesh Balasubramanian <vigbalas at amd.com>
---
 arch/Kconfig                   | 9 +++++++++
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig           | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 2 --
 include/linux/elf.h            | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 9f066785bb71..143f021c8a76 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -502,6 +502,15 @@ config MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN
 config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
+	bool
+	help
+	  An architecture should select this in order to enable adding an
+	  arch-specific ELF note section to core files. It must provide two
+	  functions: elf_coredump_extra_notes_size() and
+	  elf_coredump_extra_notes_write() which are invoked by the ELF core
+	  dumper.
+
 config ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
 	bool
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 1c4be3373686..c45fa9d7fb76 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
 	select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
+	select ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES        if SPU_BASE
 	select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK
 	select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE	if PPC_RADIX_MMU
 	select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
index 79f1c480b5eb..bb4b94444d3e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ extern int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 /* Notes used in ET_CORE. Note name is "SPU/<fd>/<filename>". */
 #define NT_SPU		1
 
-#define ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
-
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPU_BASE */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
diff --git a/include/linux/elf.h b/include/linux/elf.h
index c9a46c4e183b..5c402788da19 100644
--- a/include/linux/elf.h
+++ b/include/linux/elf.h
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ extern Elf64_Dyn _DYNAMIC [];
 struct file;
 struct coredump_params;
 
-#ifndef ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
 static inline int elf_coredump_extra_notes_size(void) { return 0; }
 static inline int elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(struct coredump_params *cprm) { return 0; }
 #else
-- 
2.34.1



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