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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	"Ross Lagerwall" <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/alt: Fix build when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is disabled
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:25:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829132530.GA7598@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180829131512.wt7wngejcrfs52tb@citrix.com>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > c/s b28cd21c3628 "x86/build: Use new .nops directive when available"
> > introduced a __read_mostly boolean which is included if the toolchain supports
> > the .nops directive.
> > 
> > When CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is compiled out, alternative.o is expected to be a fully
> > init module, and toolchain_nops_are_ideal trips the build system check:
> > 
> >   Error: size of alternative.o:.data.read_mostly is 0x01
> >   /local/xen.git/xen/Rules.mk:206: recipe for target 'alternative.init.o' failed
> >   make[3]: *** [alternative.init.o] Error 12
> > 
> > Introduce init_or_livepatch_read_mostly and switch the annotation for
> > toolchain_nops_are_ideal.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>


Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Thank you!

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-29 10:57 [PATCH] x86/alt: Fix build when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is disabled Andrew Cooper
2018-08-29 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2018-08-29 13:15 ` Wei Liu
2018-08-29 13:25   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]

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