[PATCH 4/7] powerpc: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment

This changes the powerpc linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro so
that ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image
along with other read-only data.  The PT_NOTE also points to their location.

This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 21c39ff..7f0064d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ SECTIONS
 		__stop___ex_table = .;
 	}
 
+	NOTES
+
 	BUG_TABLE
 
 /*
-
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