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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:01:27 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: Remove __efistub_global annotation
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 17:12, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> This patch series removes the need for annotating global data in the EFI
> stub with __efistub_global for ARM32 and X86.
>
> This is done by renaming the .data and .bss sections in the object files
> linked into the EFI stub to .data.efistub and .bss.efistub respectively,
> and including those sections into the compressed kernel's .data section
> using its linker script.
>
> Changes from v1:
> - drop patch 2 and squash patches 3 and 5 for x86
> - fix R_X86 -> R_386
> - only check native relocation size (32-bit for R386 and 64-bit for
> RX86_64)
>
Thanks Arvind. I have queued these up now.
Atish, I have queued up the first 2 patches of your RISC-V EFI stbu
series as well. Please base your next version on
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/log/?h=next
Thanks,
Ard.
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