[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] [LINUX] Define ELFNOTE as a preprocessor macro rather than an assembler macro

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# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Node ID 62b7b5f3029f37413b4d521ad896137ce88434de
# Parent  0bb18319b8a0ee957ea9307ac3d9e40c31b456d4
[LINUX] Define ELFNOTE as a preprocessor macro rather than an assembler macro

Assembler .macros have various issues with string arguments and :varargs.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series                                  |    1 
 patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch |   26 
++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff -r 0bb18319b8a0 -r 62b7b5f3029f patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series
--- a/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series    Wed Aug 23 11:27:06 2006 +0100
+++ b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/series    Wed Aug 23 14:34:25 2006 +0100
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ xenoprof-generic.patch
 xenoprof-generic.patch
 x86-put-note-sections-into-a-pt_note-segment-in-vmlinux.patch
 x86_64-put-note-sections-into-a-pt_note-segment-in-vmlinux.patch
+x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch
diff -r 0bb18319b8a0 -r 62b7b5f3029f 
patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch
--- /dev/null   Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch   Wed Aug 
23 14:34:25 2006 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+
+diff -r 4b7cd997c08f include/linux/elfnote.h
+--- a/include/linux/elfnote.h  Wed Aug 23 11:48:46 2006 +0100
++++ b/include/linux/elfnote.h  Wed Aug 23 12:44:27 2006 +0100
+@@ -31,22 +31,24 @@
+ /*
+  * Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which
+  * turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and
+- * desc data with appropriate padding.  The 'desc' argument includes
+- * the assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data: .asciz
+- * "hello, world"
++ * desc data with appropriate padding.  The 'desctype' argument is the
++ * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while
++ * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g.  "hello, world".
++ *
++ * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
++ *      ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
+  */
+-.macro ELFNOTE name type desc:vararg
+-.pushsection ".note.\name"
+-  .align 4
+-  .long 2f - 1f                       /* namesz */
+-  .long 4f - 3f                       /* descsz */
+-  .long \type
+-1:.asciz "\name"
+-2:.align 4
+-3:\desc
+-4:.align 4
+-.popsection
+-.endm
++#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desctype, descdata)       \
++.pushsection .note.name                       ;       \
++  .align 4                            ;       \
++  .long 2f - 1f               /* namesz */    ;       \
++  .long 4f - 3f               /* descsz */    ;       \
++  .long type                          ;       \
++1:.asciz "name"                               ;       \
++2:.align 4                            ;       \
++3:desctype descdata                   ;       \
++4:.align 4                            ;       \
++.popsection                           ;
+ #else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
+ #include <linux/elf.h>
+ /*

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