* [PATCH] xen/link: Remove CONSTRUCTORS from linker script
@ 2026-11-12 20:40 Andrew Cooper
2026-11-13 1:33 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
` (2 more replies)
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From: Andrew Cooper @ 2026-11-12 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xen-devel
Cc: Andrew Cooper, Jan Beulich, Roger Pau Monné, Teddy Astie,
Stefano Stabellini, Julien Grall, Volodymyr Babchuk,
Bertrand Marquis, Michal Orzel, Oleksii Kurochko, Baptiste Le Duc,
Timothy Pearson, Ross Lagerwall
The other architectures inherited CONSTRUCTORS from x86, so just as with
commit b7a7e346c710 ("x86: drop use of CONSTRUCTORS from linker script"), they
should be dropped.
The .ctors section is handled explicitly in all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
---
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xenproject.org>
CC: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@vates.tech>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
CC: Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
CC: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
CC: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
CC: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
CC: Baptiste Le Duc <baptiste.le-duc@vates.tech>
CC: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
---
xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S | 1 -
xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S | 1 -
xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S | 1 -
3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
index 8d0954c90afd..b5ccc732bd8d 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.data.page_aligned)
*(.data .data.*)
- CONSTRUCTORS
} :text
. = ALIGN(8);
diff --git a/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
index b2159279169c..fee810791840 100644
--- a/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.data.page_aligned)
*(.data .data.*)
- CONSTRUCTORS
} :text
DT_DEV_INFO /* Devicetree based device info */
diff --git a/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
index d1c5ce59c90d..4dc55f5ad26f 100644
--- a/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
+++ b/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.data.page_aligned)
*(.sdata .sdata.*)
*(.data .data.*)
- CONSTRUCTORS
} :text
DT_DEV_INFO /* Devicetree based device info */
base-commit: 4263fe42b736596cfa5bfec661f2f55f02759aa7
prerequisite-patch-id: 680071148129321ffaf7bd7435d031904014f556
prerequisite-patch-id: 4ebfc2a1d8cd14cc1cf477b6db8cc9ef72310674
--
2.39.5
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH] xen/link: Remove CONSTRUCTORS from linker script
2026-11-12 20:40 [PATCH] xen/link: Remove CONSTRUCTORS from linker script Andrew Cooper
@ 2026-11-13 1:33 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
2026-11-13 7:40 ` Orzel, Michal
2026-11-13 8:24 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Volodymyr Babchuk @ 2026-11-13 1:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Cooper
Cc: Xen-devel, Jan Beulich, Roger Pau Monné, Teddy Astie,
Stefano Stabellini, Julien Grall, Bertrand Marquis, Michal Orzel,
Oleksii Kurochko, Baptiste Le Duc, Timothy Pearson,
Ross Lagerwall
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> writes:
> The other architectures inherited CONSTRUCTORS from x86, so just as with
> commit b7a7e346c710 ("x86: drop use of CONSTRUCTORS from linker script"), they
> should be dropped.
>
> The .ctors section is handled explicitly in all architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@epam.com>
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xenproject.org>
> CC: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@vates.tech>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
> CC: Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
> CC: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
> CC: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
> CC: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
> CC: Baptiste Le Duc <baptiste.le-duc@vates.tech>
> CC: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
> CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
> ---
> xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S | 1 -
> xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S | 1 -
> xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> index 8d0954c90afd..b5ccc732bd8d 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S
> @@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ SECTIONS
> *(.data.page_aligned)
>
> *(.data .data.*)
> - CONSTRUCTORS
> } :text
>
> . = ALIGN(8);
> diff --git a/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
> index b2159279169c..fee810791840 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/ppc/xen.lds.S
> @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ SECTIONS
> *(.data.page_aligned)
>
> *(.data .data.*)
> - CONSTRUCTORS
> } :text
>
> DT_DEV_INFO /* Devicetree based device info */
> diff --git a/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S b/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
> index d1c5ce59c90d..4dc55f5ad26f 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/riscv/xen.lds.S
> @@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ SECTIONS
> *(.data.page_aligned)
> *(.sdata .sdata.*)
> *(.data .data.*)
> - CONSTRUCTORS
> } :text
>
> DT_DEV_INFO /* Devicetree based device info */
>
> base-commit: 4263fe42b736596cfa5bfec661f2f55f02759aa7
> prerequisite-patch-id: 680071148129321ffaf7bd7435d031904014f556
> prerequisite-patch-id: 4ebfc2a1d8cd14cc1cf477b6db8cc9ef72310674
--
WBR, Volodymyr
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2026-11-12 20:40 [PATCH] xen/link: Remove CONSTRUCTORS from linker script Andrew Cooper
2026-11-13 1:33 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
@ 2026-11-13 7:40 ` Orzel, Michal
2026-11-13 8:24 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Orzel, Michal @ 2026-11-13 7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Cooper, Xen-devel
Cc: Jan Beulich, Roger Pau Monné, Teddy Astie,
Stefano Stabellini, Julien Grall, Volodymyr Babchuk,
Bertrand Marquis, Oleksii Kurochko, Baptiste Le Duc,
Timothy Pearson, Ross Lagerwall
On 12-Nov-26 21:40, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The other architectures inherited CONSTRUCTORS from x86, so just as with
> commit b7a7e346c710 ("x86: drop use of CONSTRUCTORS from linker script"), they
> should be dropped.
>
> The .ctors section is handled explicitly in all architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@amd.com>
~Michal
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2026-11-12 20:40 [PATCH] xen/link: Remove CONSTRUCTORS from linker script Andrew Cooper
2026-11-13 1:33 ` Volodymyr Babchuk
2026-11-13 7:40 ` Orzel, Michal
@ 2026-11-13 8:24 ` Oleksii Kurochko
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Oleksii Kurochko @ 2026-11-13 8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Cooper, Xen-devel
Cc: Jan Beulich, Roger Pau Monné, Teddy Astie,
Stefano Stabellini, Julien Grall, Volodymyr Babchuk,
Bertrand Marquis, Michal Orzel, Baptiste Le Duc, Timothy Pearson,
Ross Lagerwall
On 11/12/26 9:40 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The other architectures inherited CONSTRUCTORS from x86, so just as with
> commit b7a7e346c710 ("x86: drop use of CONSTRUCTORS from linker script"), they
> should be dropped.
>
> The .ctors section is handled explicitly in all architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
Thanks.
~ Oleksii
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