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    powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" · ec556271
    Kees Cook authored
    The Program Header identifiers are internal to the linker scripts. In
    preparation for moving the NOTES segment declaration into RO_DATA,
    standardize the identifier for the PT_NOTE entry to "note" as used by
    all other architectures that emit PT_NOTE.
    
    Note that there was discussion about changing all architectures to use
    "notes" instead, but I prefer to avoid that at this time. Changing only
    powerpc is the smallest change to standardize the entire kernel. And
    while this standardization does use singular "note" for a section that
    has more than one note in it, this is just an internal identifier. It
    matches the ELF "PT_NOTE", and is 4 characters (like "text", and "data")
    for pretty alignment. The more exposed macro, "NOTES", use the more
    sensible plural wording.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
    Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
    Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
    Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-2-keescook@chromium.org
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