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+/*
+ * This supplies .note.* sections to go into the PT_NOTE inside the vDSO text.
+ * Here we can supply some information useful to userland.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/elfnote.h>
+
+/* Ideally this would use UTS_NAME, but using a quoted string here
+ doesn't work. Remember to change this when changing the
+ kernel's name. */
+ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a")
+ .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
+ELFNOTE_END
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
+/*
+ * Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware
+ * flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the
+ * same way it uses real hardware capabilities like "mmx".
+ * We supply "nosegneg" as the fake capability, to indicate that we
+ * do not like negative offsets in instructions using segment overrides,
+ * since we implement those inefficiently. This makes it possible to
+ * install libraries optimized to avoid those access patterns in someplace
+ * like /lib/i686/tls/nosegneg. Note that an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/file
+ * corresponding to the bits here is needed to make ldconfig work right.
+ * It should contain:
+ * hwcap 1 nosegneg
+ * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here.
+ *
+ * At runtime, the fake hardware feature will be considered to be present
+ * if its bit is set in the mask word. So, we start with the mask 0, and
+ * at boot time we set VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT if running under Xen.
+ */
+
+#include "../../x86/xen/vdso.h" /* Defines VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT. */
+
+ .globl VDSO_NOTE_MASK
+ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a")
+ .long 1 /* ncaps */
+VDSO_NOTE_MASK:
+ .long 0 /* mask */
+ .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */
+ELFNOTE_END
+#endif