From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:44:26 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] uml: ELF locking commentary
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~274^2~389
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c538b391a7e8f3cb5d7756ec68d1864429d26a0c;p=karo-tx-linux.git

[PATCH] uml: ELF locking commentary

Comment the lack of locking of the elf data extracted from the ELF headers
passed to UML.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
index 5a99dd3fbed0..3a8d7e3aae0a 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ typedef Elf32_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
 typedef Elf64_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
 #endif
 
+/* These are initialized very early in boot and never changed */
 char * elf_aux_platform;
 long elf_aux_hwcap;
-
 unsigned long vsyscall_ehdr;
 unsigned long vsyscall_end;
-
 unsigned long __kernel_vsyscall;
 
 __init void scan_elf_aux( char **envp)