Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] arm64: Handle miscellaneous functions in .text and .init.text

[Madhavan T. Venkataraman]

On 5/6/21 10:30 AM, Madhavan T. Venkataraman wrote:
>> I was thinking it'd be good to do this by modifying SYM_CODE_START() to
>> emit the section, that way nobody can forget to put any SYM_CODE into a
>> special section.  That does mean we'd have to first introduce a new
>> variant for specifying a section that lets us override things that need
>> to be in some specific section and convert everything that's in a
>> special section over to that first which is a bit annoying but feels
>> like it's worth it for the robustness.  It'd also put some of the don't
>> cares into .code.text but so long as they are actually don't cares that
>> should be fine!
>>
> OK. I could make the section an argument to SYM_CODE*() so that a developer
> will never miss that. Some documentation may be in order so the guidelines
> are clear. I will do the doc patch separately, if that is alright with
> you all.

There is just one problem with this. Sometimes, there is some data in the
same text section. That data will not get included when we do the SYM_CODE(section)
change.

Madhavan