Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure that all nVHE hyp code is in .hyp.text

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Jul 30 2020 - 09:52:16 EST


On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:25:19 +0100, David Brazdil wrote:
> Some compilers may put a subset of generated functions into '.text.*'
> ELF sections and the linker may leverage this division to optimize ELF
> layout. Unfortunately, the recently introduced HYPCOPY command assumes
> that all executable code (with the exception of specialized sections
> such as '.hyp.idmap.text') is in the '.text' section. If this
> assumption is broken, code in '.text.*' will be merged into kernel
> proper '.text' instead of the '.hyp.text' that is mapped in EL2.
>
> [...]

Applied to kvm-arm64/el2-obj-v4.1, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Ensure that all nVHE hyp code is in .hyp.text
commit: bdbc0c7a070c0cbe3009cd271c6ec8d87d69cc7a

Cheers,

M.
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