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Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:37:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.22?] x86/EFI: arrange for non-discardable .reloc in xen.efi To: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Andrew Cooper , Teddy Astie , Marek Marczykowski , Daniel Smith , Oleksii Kurochko References: <652b57e0-42f8-47c8-b94d-df862874aba3@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Jan Beulich Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-d62444/1781692660-AEF58FF4-ADA21F1C/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1163 On 17.06.2026 12:29, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 06:17:54PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Loaders respecting IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE would not load such sections, >> yet we need to access it ourselves when switching out of "physical mode". >> Leverage behavior new to GNU ld 2.46: Any contribution to .reloc which >> doesn't have the discardable flag set (which cannot even be expressed in >> ELF) will yield the output section also non-discardable. >> >> Since for intermediate binaries we don't care about section attributes, >> link in the new object only on the final linking pass. > > I'm not sure I follow. Xen already does generate a custom .reloc > section without the IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE attribute when using > the mkreloc utility, and hence the .reloc section should never be > marked as discardable? mkreloc is used only when we recognize the linker to be incapable of producing (correct) base relocations. As a modern linker is required for the desired IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE handling for .reloc, mkreloc wouldn't normally be used there. Hence no .reloc section with the wanted property. Jan