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Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:26:56 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: move kimage_vaddr to .rodata
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:40:02AM +0200, R?mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> From: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis.courmont@huawei.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: R?mi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 6e08ee2b4d55..8e5c0e0040e4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -457,17 +457,19 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switched)
>  	b	start_kernel
>  SYM_FUNC_END(__primary_switched)
>  
> +	.pushsection ".rodata", "a"
> +SYM_DATA_START(kimage_vaddr)
> +	.quad		_text - TEXT_OFFSET
> +SYM_DATA_END(kimage_vaddr)
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kimage_vaddr)
> +	.popsection
> +
>  /*
>   * end early head section, begin head code that is also used for
>   * hotplug and needs to have the same protections as the text region
>   */
>  	.section ".idmap.text","awx"
>  
> -SYM_DATA_START(kimage_vaddr)
> -	.quad		_text - TEXT_OFFSET
> -SYM_DATA_END(kimage_vaddr)
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kimage_vaddr)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Will