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From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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        Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text
Date:   Tue,  2 May 2023 13:14:16 +0100
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On Tue, 2 May 2023 07:41:05 +0000, Fangrui Song wrote:
> Currently, the .got section is placed within the output section .text.
> However, when .got is non-empty, the SHF_WRITE flag is set for .text
> when linked by lld. GNU ld recognizes .text as a special section and
> ignores the SHF_WRITE flag. By renaming .text, we can also get the
> SHF_WRITE flag.
> 
> The kernel has performed R_AARCH64_RELATIVE resolving very early, and can
> then assume that .got is read-only. Let's move .got to the vmlinux_rodata
> pseudo-segment.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: lds: move .got section out of .text
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/0fddb79bf283

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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