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diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
index d4b5be4f3d5..271f16a8ca0 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
@@ -3,23 +3,40 @@
* Here we can supply some information useful to userland.
*/
-#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <linux/elfnote.h>
-#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(name, flags, vendor, type) \
- .section name, flags; \
- .balign 4; \
- .long 1f - 0f; /* name length */ \
- .long 3f - 2f; /* data length */ \
- .long type; /* note type */ \
-0: .asciz vendor; /* vendor name */ \
-1: .balign 4; \
-2:
+/* Ideally this would use UTS_NAME, but using a quoted string here
+ doesn't work. Remember to change this when changing the
+ kernel's name. */
+ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a")
+ .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
+ELFNOTE_END
-#define ASM_ELF_NOTE_END \
-3: .balign 4; /* pad out section */ \
- .previous
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
- ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernel-version", "a", UTS_SYSNAME, 0)
- .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE
- ASM_ELF_NOTE_END
+/*
+ * Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware
+ * flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the
+ * same way it uses real hardware capabilities like "mmx".
+ * We supply "nosegneg" as the fake capability, to indicate that we
+ * do not like negative offsets in instructions using segment overrides,
+ * since we implement those inefficiently. This makes it possible to
+ * install libraries optimized to avoid those access patterns in someplace
+ * like /lib/i686/tls/nosegneg. Note that an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/file
+ * corresponding to the bits here is needed to make ldconfig work right.
+ * It should contain:
+ * hwcap 1 nosegneg
+ * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here.
+ */
+
+/* Bit used for the pseudo-hwcap for non-negative segments. We use
+ bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc when bit 0 is
+ used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary. */
+#define VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT 1
+
+ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a")
+ .long 1, 1<<VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT /* ncaps, mask */
+ .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */
+ELFNOTE_END
+#endif