Re: [PATCH] x86/guest: Fix assembler warnings with newer binutils

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12.05.2020 18:28, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/guest/xen/hypercall_page.S
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/guest/xen/hypercall_page.S
> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
>  GLOBAL(hypercall_page)
>           /* Poisoned with `ret` for safety before hypercalls are set up. */
>          .fill PAGE_SIZE, 1, 0xc3
> -        .type hypercall_page, STT_OBJECT
>          .size hypercall_page, PAGE_SIZE

Looks like we don't need to sacrifice type setting here: Simply
moving .type ahead of .set in DECLARE_HYPERCALL() seems to also
help. To save a roundtrip, this alternative change
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan