"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@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jini Susan George <jinisusan.george@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vignesh Balasubramanian <vigbalas@xxxxxxx>
---
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
