From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger@xenproject.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@vates.tech>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: mark .altinstructions r/w
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:27:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apfPz0njzKVwJ22s@macbook.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a16d4079-cd8c-4eca-8a60-3cef40173cfd@suse.com>
On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 09:15:46AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Forever since the introduction of the .priv member it has been wrong to
> record the section as r/o.
>
> .alt_call_sites, otoh, is legitimately r/o, hence
> __alt_call_sites_{start,end}[] would better reflect that.
Right, we don't however have a .init.rodata section, and hence it gets
placed in the .init.data section which is r/w. No objection about the
addition of const, it's the right thing.
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xenproject.org>
I think you want:
Fixes: 4008c71d7af2 ("x86/alt: Support for automatic padding calculations")
Thanks, Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 7:15 [PATCH] x86/alternatives: mark .altinstructions r/w Jan Beulich
2026-09-02 7:27 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2026-09-02 8:31 ` Jan Beulich
2026-09-02 8:35 ` Roger Pau Monné
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