linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: move kimage

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Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:24:56 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        maz@...nel.org, james.morse@....com, julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: move kimage_vaddr to .rodata

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:40:02AM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> From: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis.courmont@...wei.com>
> 
> This datum is not referenced from .idmap.text: it does not need to be
> mapped in idmap. Lets move it to .rodata as it is never written to after
> early boot of the primary CPU.
> (Maybe .data.ro_after_init would be cleaner though?)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>

Queued for 5.7. Thanks.

-- 
Catalin