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    x86_64: increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils · cf8dc57c
    Andi Kleen authored
    For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so increase the text
    offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors.
    
    Roland McGrath explains:
      "There are extra symbols in the '.dynsym' section that are responsible
       for the size difference (They also cause corresponding inflation in
       '.gnu.version')
    
       Older ld's wrongly generated these unneeded symbols in .dynsym.  This
       was fixed not all that long ago (2006); binutils-2.17.50.0.6 might be
       the first fixed version, but I have not verified for sure where the
       cutoff was.
    
       The unneeded symbols et al from old ld add almost 700 bytes excess.
       This limits fairly tightly the amount by which the actual text and
       data in the vDSO can grow in the future without pushing the whole
       file over 4kb.  If it does grow later on, we should consider changing
       the layout with a config option or something to pack it better
       without that padding, when building the kernel with newer binutils."
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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