[PATCH v3 01/11] kvm: arm64: Partially link nVHE hyp code, simplify HYPCOPY
David Brazdil
dbrazdil at google.com
Tue Sep 22 13:55:02 EDT 2020
> > +#define HYP_SECTION_NAME(NAME) .hyp##NAME
> > +
> > +/* Defines an ELF hyp section from input section @NAME and its subsections. */
> > +#define HYP_SECTION(NAME) \
> > + HYP_SECTION_NAME(NAME) : { *(NAME NAME##.[0-9a-zA-Z_]*) }
>
> I still don't get why we can't just use NAME ## .* for the regex here. That
> matches what we do elsewhere for linker script wildcarding, e.g. .rodata.*,
> .init.text.* ... in asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h. Why is it different for
> these sections?
Shouldn't matter. I copied it from a script in the Clang LTO branch. Will align
it with what's in the main arm64 script.
> > +# 2) Compile linker script.
> > +$(obj)/hyp.lds: $(src)/hyp.lds.S FORCE
> > + $(call if_changed_dep,cpp_lds_S)
>
> You need a .gitignore file listing hyp.lds, otherwise some idiot will end
> up committing it. I definitely didn't do that when playing around with this
> series. Nope. Not at all.
Thanks for noticing, I never compile in-tree. Added
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