On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:26 PM Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopher...@intel.com> wrote: > > Once upon a time, vdso2c aggressively stripped data from the vDSO > image when generating the final userspace image. This included > stripping the .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections. > Eventually, the stripping process reverted to "objdump -S" and no > longer removed the aforementioned sections, but the comment remained. > > Keeping the .alt* sections at the end of the PT_LOAD segment is no > longer necessary, but there's no harm in doing so and it's a helpful > reminder that they don't need to be included in the final vDSO image, > i.e. someone may want to take another stab at zapping/stripping the > unneeded sections.
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
