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From: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maz@kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: move kimage_vaddr to .rodata
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:42:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e87d4a759618c13dfc9d814112e6352a@remlab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200312164035.GA21120@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

Le 2020-03-12 18:40, Mark Rutland a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:40:02AM +0200, Rémi 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?)
> 
> Can we move this into arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c, where we already have
> kimage_voffset:
> 
> | u64 kimage_voffset __ro_after_init;
> | EXPORT_SYMBOL(kimage_voffset);
> 
> ... or is it not possible to initialize kimage_vaddr correctly in C?

Good question... I'll check tomorrow.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-12 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12  9:40 [PATCH] arm64: move kimage_vaddr to .rodata Rémi Denis-Courmont
2020-03-12 16:40 ` Mark Rutland
2020-03-12 16:42   ` Remi Denis-Courmont [this message]
2020-03-17 22:26 ` Will Deacon
2020-03-20 18:24 ` Catalin Marinas

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