Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] riscv: Fixup static_obj() fail

From: Atish Patra
Date: Mon Oct 05 2020 - 15:14:15 EST


On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:19 AM Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How about this, revert the commit and don't free INIT_DATA_SECTION. I
> think the solution is safe enough, but wast a little memory.
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index f3586e3..34d00d9 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -22,13 +22,11 @@ SECTIONS
> /* Beginning of code and text segment */
> . = LOAD_OFFSET;
> _start = .;
> - _stext = .;
> HEAD_TEXT_SECTION
> . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>
> __init_begin = .;
> INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
> - INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
> . = ALIGN(8);
> __soc_early_init_table : {
> __soc_early_init_table_start = .;
> @@ -55,6 +53,7 @@ SECTIONS
> . = ALIGN(SECTION_ALIGN);
> .text : {
> _text = .;
> + _stext = .;
> TEXT_TEXT
> SCHED_TEXT
> CPUIDLE_TEXT
> @@ -67,6 +66,8 @@ SECTIONS
> _etext = .;
> }
>
> + INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
> +

I think you need to move EXIT_DATA as well. Currently, we have init
data & text in one section.
In general it is better idea to separate those similar to ARM64.
Additionally, ARM64 applies different mapping for init data & text
as the init data section is marked as non-executable[1]

However, we don't modify any permission for any init sections. Should
we do that as well ?

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9572869/

> /* Start of data section */
> _sdata = .;
> RO_DATA(SECTION_ALIGN)
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:36 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 14 2020, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >
> > > How should we proceed to get that fixed in time for 5.9? For the older
> > > branches where it has been backported (so far 5.7 and 5.8), should we
> > > just get that commit reverted instead?
> >
> > Can this please be resolved ASAP?
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Guo Ren
>
> ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/
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Regards,
Atish