Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/4] xen/link: Link .data.schedulers and CONSTRUCTERS in more appropriate locations

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 09:11:25PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Neither of these should live in .data
> 
>  * .data.schedulers is only ever read, so is moved into .rodata
>  * CONSTRUCTORS is only ever read, and only at boot, so is moved to beside
>    .init.rodata
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

For x86:

Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

One comment below:

> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S | 11 ++++++-----
>  xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S | 11 ++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
> index ec37d38..9fa6c99 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/xen.lds.S
> @@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ SECTIONS
>         *(.data.param)
>         __param_end = .;
>  
> +       . = ALIGN(POINTER_ALIGN);
> +       __start_schedulers_array = .;
> +       *(.data.schedulers)
> +       __end_schedulers_array = .;
> +
>  #if defined(CONFIG_HAS_VPCI) && defined(CONFIG_LATE_HWDOM)
>         . = ALIGN(POINTER_ALIGN);
>         __start_vpci_array = .;
> @@ -207,6 +212,7 @@ SECTIONS
>  
>         *(.init.rodata)
>         *(.init.rodata.*)
> +       CONSTRUCTORS

According to the ld manual CONSTRUCTORS is only relevant for a.out,
ECOFF and XCOFF. I'm unsure whether PE does use CONSTRUCTORS or not,
since it's a descendant of COFF.

Thanks, Roger.

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