x86, vdso: Get rid of the fake section mechanism

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Now that we can tolerate extra things dangling off the end of the
vdso image, we can strip the vdso the old fashioned way rather than
using an overcomplicated custom stripping algorithm.

This is a partial reversion of:
    6f121e5 x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50e01ed6dcc0575d20afd782f9fe98d5ee3e2d8a.1405040914.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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Andy Lutomirski 2014-07-10 18:13:16 -07:00 • committed by H. Peter Anvin

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arch/x86/vdso/Makefile

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arch/x86/vdso/vdso-fakesections.c

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arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.c

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arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h

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