From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>, Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: Remove __efistub_global annotation
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:01:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMj1kXFD7JYRLrn0D-pGG2thGdjsvQ1QDdRpXKdG9DqfW7vc4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416151227.3360778-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 17:12, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 22:15 [PATCH 0/5] efi: Remove __efistub_global annotation Arvind Sankar
2020-04-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] efi/arm: " Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 7:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] efi/libstub: Factor out relocation checking Arvind Sankar
2020-04-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] efi/x86: Remove __efistub_global annotation Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 7:51 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] efi: Kill __efistub_global Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 7:51 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] efi/x86: Check for bad relocations Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 7:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-16 14:48 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: Remove __efistub_global annotation Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 16:01 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2020-04-16 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] efi/arm: " Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] efi/x86: Remove __efistub_global and add relocation check Arvind Sankar
2020-04-16 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] efi: Kill __efistub_global Arvind Sankar
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