Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/link: Don't merge .init.text and .init.data

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.02.18 at 20:01, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Putting all init-time code and data in a single section is a perfectly
>> valid thing to do imo.
> 
> Having our debug symbols borderline unusable, isn't valid.
> 
> Certainly not to work around what you yourself identify as a theoretical
> issue in the first place.

I wonder what theoretical issue you refer to here. I didn't say
anything like that on this thread afaics, nor in the description
of the patch that you want to partly undo. EFI implementations
write-protecting r/o sections is not just a theoretical issue afaict.

> Other option would be to #ifdef the section handing based on EFI, or
> attempt to merge the sections with objcopy before passing mkreloc?

Well, as much as I dislike such #ifdef-ary, I think I could (rather
hesitantly) accept that.

Jan


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