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1/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
2#ifndef _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
3#define _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H
4/*
5 * Helper macros to generate ELF Note structures, which are put into a
6 * PT_NOTE segment of the final vmlinux image. These are useful for
7 * including name-value pairs of metadata into the kernel binary (or
8 * modules?) for use by external programs.
9 *
10 * Each note has three parts: a name, a type and a desc. The name is
11 * intended to distinguish the note's originator, so it would be a
12 * company, project, subsystem, etc; it must be in a suitable form for
13 * use in a section name. The type is an integer which is used to tag
14 * the data, and is considered to be within the "name" namespace (so
15 * "FooCo"'s type 42 is distinct from "BarProj"'s type 42). The
16 * "desc" field is the actual data. There are no constraints on the
17 * desc field's contents, though typically they're fairly small.
18 *
19 * All notes from a given NAME are put into a section named
20 * .note.NAME. When the kernel image is finally linked, all the notes
21 * are packed into a single .notes section, which is mapped into the
22 * PT_NOTE segment. Because notes for a given name are grouped into
23 * the same section, they'll all be adjacent the output file.
24 *
25 * This file defines macros for both C and assembler use. Their
26 * syntax is slightly different, but they're semantically similar.
27 *
28 * See the ELF specification for more detail about ELF notes.
29 */
30
31#ifdef __ASSEMBLER__
32/*
33 * Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which
34 * turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and
35 * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desctype' argument is the
36 * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while
37 * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g. "hello, world".
38 *
39 * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
40 * ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
41 */
42#define ELFNOTE_START(name, type, flags) \
43.pushsection .note.name, flags,@note ; \
44 .balign 4 ; \
45 .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ ; \
46 .long 4484f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \
47 .long type ; \
481:.asciz #name ; \
492:.balign 4 ; \
503:
51
52#define ELFNOTE_END \
534484:.balign 4 ; \
54.popsection ;
55
56#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desc) \
57 ELFNOTE_START(name, type, "a") \
58 desc ; \
59 ELFNOTE_END
60
61#else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
62#include <uapi/linux/elf.h>
63#include <linux/compiler.h>
64/*
65 * Use an anonymous structure which matches the shape of
66 * Elf{32,64}_Nhdr, but includes the name and desc data. The size and
67 * type of name and desc depend on the macro arguments. "name" must
68 * be a literal string, and "desc" must be passed by value.
69 */
70#define ELFNOTE(size, name, type, desc) \
71 static const struct { \
72 struct elf##size##_note _nhdr; \
73 unsigned char _name[sizeof(name)] \
74 __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
75 typeof(desc) _desc \
76 __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
77 } __UNIQUE_ID(note) \
78 __used \
79 __attribute__((section(".note." name), \
80 aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)), \
81 unused)) = { \
82 { \
83 sizeof(name), \
84 sizeof(desc), \
85 type, \
86 }, \
87 name, \
88 desc \
89 }
90
91#define ELFNOTE32(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(32, name, type, desc)
92#define ELFNOTE64(name, type, desc) ELFNOTE(64, name, type, desc)
93
94#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
95
96#endif /* _LINUX_ELFNOTE_H */