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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
architectures. (Kees Cook)
- Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
sliding execution. (Kees Cook)
- A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
(hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:
SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
SYM_END(name, sym_type)
SYM_FUNC_START(name)
SYM_FUNC_END(name)
SYM_CODE_START(name)
SYM_CODE_END(name)
SYM_DATA_START(name)
SYM_DATA_END(name)
etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.
No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)
- Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
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