[PATCH v2 0/3] arm64/boot: Forbid the use of BSS symbols in startup code

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, 08 May 2025 13:43:29 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Move any variables accessed or assigned by the startup code out of BSS,
> and into .data, so that we can forbid the use of BSS variables
> altogether, by ASSERT()'ing in the linker script that each symbol made
> available to the startup code lives before __bss_start in the linker
> map.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - fix build error due to missing declaration in #1
> - work around Clang complaining about the ASSERT() expression in the
>   linker script
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/mm), thanks!

[1/3] arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/93d0d6f8a654
[2/3] arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/4afff6cc9a55
[3/3] arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/90530521079e

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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