MIPS: OCTEON: omit ELF NOTE segments

OCTEON Pre-SDK-1.8.1 bootloaders can not handle PT_NOTE program headers,
so do not emit them.

Before the patch:

$ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux

Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0
There are 2 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD           0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000
                 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360  RWE    1000
  NOTE           0x00000000004e02e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0xffffffff815df2e0
                 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024  R      4

After the patch:

$ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux

Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0
There are 1 program headers, starting at offset 64

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset             VirtAddr           PhysAddr
                 FileSiz            MemSiz              Flags  Align
  LOAD           0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000
                 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360  RWE    1000

The patch was tested on DSR-1000N router.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11403/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 06632d6..cce2fcb 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(mips)
 ENTRY(kernel_entry)
 PHDRS {
        text PT_LOAD FLAGS(7);  /* RWX */
+#ifndef CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC
        note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4);  /* R__ */
+#endif /* CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC */
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_32BIT
@@ -71,7 +73,12 @@ SECTIONS
                __stop___dbe_table = .;
        }
 
-       NOTES :text :note
+#ifdef CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC
+#define NOTES_HEADER
+#else /* CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC */
+#define NOTES_HEADER :note
+#endif /* CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC */
+       NOTES :text NOTES_HEADER
        .dummy : { *(.dummy) } :text
 
        _sdata = .;                     /* Start of data section */