Re: [PATCH 14/17] crypto: Don't mark AES tables const and cacheline_aligned

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 04:42:18 EST


On 21/03/2019 23.00, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> cacheline_aligned is a special section. It cannot be const at the same
> time because it's not read-only. It doesn't give any MMU protection.

Urgh. Perhaps this instead just wanted to use the quadruple underscore
version, ____cacheline_aligned ? That would make these objects correctly
aligned and still live in .rodata, no?

Rasmus