From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C36B6C61DFD for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2026 07:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.1405187.1638722 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x1fNS-0002RF-I7; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:22 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 1405187.1638722; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:22 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x1fNS-0002R8-Dj; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:22 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 1405187; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:21 +0000 Received: from mail.xenproject.org ([104.130.215.37]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1x1fNR-0002R2-Is for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:21 +0000 Received: from xenbits.xenproject.org ([104.239.192.120]) by mail.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1x1fNR-001mxE-0a; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:20 +0000 Received: from 224.pool85-54-217.dynamic.orange.es ([85.54.217.224] helo=localhost) by xenbits.xenproject.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1x1fNQ-00EwVS-1n; Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:27:20 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xenproject.org; s=20200302mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=cVKgxywC1O2zSO0F9vjmJuAEozgqi3gcnsXP3MlROuc=; b=1qksZ6gstlC5xBb2PauzSir3sj Claw11wj8EXIcnjKFiouuASmpux14HNwcbYemUtgqx2PzC5oFY/dzfl9RwNps2fT8czAow3rwY5l4 eUX1SL+nNqI7QGTMvmbP/UMQcfqaXMk80O0eGRMPYrhGLz+Vqtx6LhnepYzcGKO9YNPM=; Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:27:11 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= To: Jan Beulich Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Andrew Cooper , Teddy Astie Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: mark .altinstructions r/w Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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 Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné I think you want: Fixes: 4008c71d7af2 ("x86/alt: Support for automatic padding calculations") Thanks, Roger.