x86/vdso: Remove obsolete "fake section table" reservation
At one point the vDSO image was manually stripped down by vdso2c in an attempt to minimize the size of the image mapped into userspace. Part of that stripping process involved building a fake section table so as not to break userspace processes that parse the section table. Memory for the fake section table was reserved in the .rodata section so that vdso2c could simply copy the entire PT_LOAD segment into the userspace image after building the fake table. Eventually, the entire fake section table approach was dropped in favor of stripping the vdso "the old fashioned way", i.e. via objdump -S. But, the reservation in .rodata for the fake table was left behind. Remove the reserveration along with a few other related defines and section entries. Removing the fake section table placeholder zaps a whopping 0x340 bytes from the 64-bit vDSO image, which drops the current image's size to under 4k, i.e. reduces the effective size of the userspace vDSO mapping by a full page. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: da861e18 ("x86, vdso: Get rid of the fake section mechanism") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204212600.28090-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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