Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] efi: Remove __efistub_global annotation

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 17:12, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.