[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Remove PAGE_SIZE alignment for hyp event ELF sections
Fuad Tabba
fuad.tabba at linux.dev
Thu Sep 24 09:14:54 PDT 2026
Hi Vincent,
On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:51:54 +0100, Vincent Donnefort
<vdonnefort at google.com> wrote:
> .hyp.event_ids is mapped as part of .hyp.rodata. As a consequence this
> section does not need any page-alignment. Remove it to save a page worth
> of memory.
>
> Fixes: 0a90fbc8a170 ("KVM: arm64: Add event support to the nVHE/pKVM hyp and trace remote")
Could you either drop the Fixes: tag or say in the message what goes
wrong without this patch? As it stands the message describes a
one-page saving, and the tag makes it a candidate for stable.
With that:
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>
Tested with the hypervisor remote ftrace selftests, in pKVM and in nVHE:
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>
Cheers,
/fuad
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