/*
* Generate a structure with the same shape as Elf{32,64}_Nhdr (which
* turn out to be the same size and shape), followed by the name and
- * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desc' argument includes
- * the assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data: .asciz
- * "hello, world"
+ * desc data with appropriate padding. The 'desctype' argument is the
+ * assembler pseudo op defining the type of the data e.g. .asciz while
+ * 'descdata' is the data itself e.g. "hello, world".
+ *
+ * e.g. ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 42, .asciz, "forty-two")
+ * ELFNOTE(XYZCo, 12, .long, 0xdeadbeef)
*/
-.macro ELFNOTE name type desc:vararg
-.pushsection ".note.\name"
- .align 4
- .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */
- .long 4f - 3f /* descsz */
- .long \type
-1:.asciz "\name"
-2:.align 4
-3:\desc
-4:.align 4
-.popsection
-.endm
+#define ELFNOTE_START(name, type, flags) \
+.pushsection .note.name, flags,@note ; \
+ .balign 4 ; \
+ .long 2f - 1f /* namesz */ ; \
+ .long 4484f - 3f /* descsz */ ; \
+ .long type ; \
+1:.asciz #name ; \
+2:.balign 4 ; \
+3:
+
+#define ELFNOTE_END \
+4484:.balign 4 ; \
+.popsection ;
+
+#define ELFNOTE(name, type, desc) \
+ ELFNOTE_START(name, type, "") \
+ desc ; \
+ ELFNOTE_END
+
#else /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
#include <linux/elf.h>
/*
typeof(desc) _desc \
__attribute__((aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)))); \
} _ELFNOTE_PASTE(_note_, unique) \
- __attribute_used__ \
+ __used \
__attribute__((section(".note." name), \
aligned(sizeof(Elf##size##_Word)), \
unused)) = { \