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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 11:36:57 -0800
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
To: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH  v4 1/6] x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 07:38:40AM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> +.pushsection .entry.text, "ax"
> +
> +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
> +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel)
> +	UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED
> +	ANNOTATE_NOENDBR
> +	.word __KERNEL_DS
> +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc
> +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel);
> +/* For KVM */
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mds_verw_sel);
> +
> +.popsection

This is data, so why is it "CODE" in .entry.text?

-- 
Josh