linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] arm64: kvm: Move __smccc_workaround_1

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:06:36 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, android-kvm@...gle.com,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/15] arm64: kvm: Move __smccc_workaround_1_smc to
 .rodata

On 2020-06-19 10:51, David Brazdil wrote:
> Hey Marc,
> 
>> > -	.popsection
>> 
>> I'd be tempted to leave the .popsection in place, if only for symmetry 
>>  with
>> the initial .pushsection.
> 
> I removed it because other .S files don't pop either. It must have been 
> added
> here purely for the smccc workaround code. Happy to add it back if you 
> prefer,
> but the pushsection is removed later in the series, so this would 
> disappear
> as well.

Don't bother then.

> 
>> > +	.pushsection	.rodata
>> > +	.global		__smccc_workaround_1_smc
>> > +__smccc_workaround_1_smc:
>> 
>> You probably want to replace this with SYM_DATA_START (and 
>> SYM_DATA_END at
>> the end).
> 
> Done

Thanks!

         M.
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