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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kvm: Annotate assembly using modern annoations
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:04:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200214150434.GO4827@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8e8da7f1e02e9c2f8e67968697bdf85@kernel.org>


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On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 02:19:18PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:

> > > >  	.align	11
> > > > -ENTRY(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs_start)
> > > > +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs)
> > > > +SYM_INNER_LABEL(__bp_harden_hyp_vecs_start, SYM_L_GLOBAL)

> > > Why isn't SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN enough? And what is the rational for

> > The _start and _end labels that were there before are explicitly
> > referenced by code, removing them would break the build.

> But if we're going to clean things up, I'd rather we actually do that.
> The only time __bp_harden_hyp_vecs_end is used is when computing the
> size of the vectors, and that'd better be BP_HARDEN_EL2_SLOTS * 2kB
> (which can be statically asserted at compile time).

I just realized that the same structure is also being used for
__smccc_workaround_1_smc which doesn't have such an obviously fixed
size - am I missing something with that one?  I'll take a look at it
anyway.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 15:38 [PATCH] arm64: kvm: Annotate assembly using modern annoations Mark Brown
2020-02-13 21:36 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 11:40   ` Mark Brown
2020-02-14 14:19     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 14:52       ` Mark Brown
2020-02-14 15:04       ` Mark Brown [this message]

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