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[v3,1/5] arm: kvm: move kvm_vgic_global_state out of .text section

Message ID 1487105558-21897-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Ard Biesheuvel Feb. 14, 2017, 8:52 p.m. UTC 
The kvm_vgic_global_state struct contains a static key which is
written to by jump_label_init() at boot time. So in preparation of
making .text regions truly (well, almost truly) read-only, mark
kvm_vgic_global_state __ro_after_init so it moves to the .rodata
section instead.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
index 6440b56ec90e..2f373455ed4e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ 
 #define DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(p)
 #endif
 
-struct vgic_global __section(.hyp.text) kvm_vgic_global_state = {.gicv3_cpuif = STATIC_KEY_FALSE_INIT,};
+struct vgic_global kvm_vgic_global_state __ro_after_init = {
+	.gicv3_cpuif = STATIC_KEY_FALSE_INIT,
+};
 
 /*
  * Locking order is always: