Re: [PATCH for-4.22?] x86/EFI: arrange for non-discardable .reloc in xen.efi

[Yann Sionneau <yann.sionneau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/26 18:20, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Loaders respecting IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE would not load such sections,
> yet we need to access it ourselves when switching out of "physical mode".
> Leverage behavior new to GNU ld 2.46: Any contribution to .reloc which
> doesn't have the discardable flag set (which cannot even be expressed in
> ELF) will yield the output section also non-discardable.
> 
> Since for intermediate binaries we don't care about section attributes,
> link in the new object only on the final linking pass.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Can I get a Reported-by tag on this one?
Since I reported the issue with a patch a few months ago: 
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20250724140731.1502774-1-yann.sionneau@xxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks and congratz for the binutils fixes integration!

Regards,


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