[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Remove PAGE_SIZE alignment for hyp event ELF sections

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Sun Sep 27 01:40:20 PDT 2026


On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:14:54 +0100,
Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've dropped the tag when applying the patch.

Thanks,

	M.

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