[PATCH v2 3/8] KVM: arm64: Add symbol at the beginning of each hyp section

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Sat Jan 23 08:30:09 EST 2021


On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:05:36 +0000,
David Brazdil <dbrazdil at google.com> wrote:
> 
> Generating hyp relocations will require referencing positions at a given
> offset from the beginning of hyp sections. Since the final layout will
> not be determined until the linking of `vmlinux`, modify the hyp linker
> script to insert a symbol at the first byte of each hyp section to use
> as an anchor. The linker of `vmlinux` will place the symbols together
> with the sections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/hyp_image.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S  |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hyp_image.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hyp_image.h
> index daa1a1da539e..f97b774b58f4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/hyp_image.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/hyp_image.h
> @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
>  #ifndef __ARM64_HYP_IMAGE_H__
>  #define __ARM64_HYP_IMAGE_H__
>  
> +#define HYP_CONCAT(a, b)	__HYP_CONCAT(a, b)
> +#define __HYP_CONCAT(a, b)	a ## b
> +

OK, this may seem like a completely pointless comment, but I have a
total mental block when I see macros written upside down

I'll fix that myself, no need to resend just for that.

Thanks,

	M.

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