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[Xen-devel] Re: [bisected] Re: [PATCH 05 of 12] xen: add p2m mfn_list_li
Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: make page-aligned data and bss less fragile
Making a variable page-aligned by using
__attribute__((section(".data.page_aligned"))) is fragile because if
sizeof(variable) is not also a multiple of page size, it leaves
variables in the remainder of the section unaligned.
This patch introduces two new qualifiers, __page_aligned_data and
__page_aligned_bss to set the section *and* the alignment of
variables. This makes page-aligned variables more robust because the
linker will make sure they're aligned properly. Unfortunately it
requires *all* page-aligned data to use these macros...
applied to -tip, thanks Jeremy. Created a new topic branch for the core
bits of it: tip/build. Sam might want to pull from that topic branch
eventually, once these changes pass testing in -tip.
Can you also drop "xen: fix early bootup crash on native hardware" and
replace it with "x86: use __page_aligned_data/bss"? (Which seems to
have been partially applied?)
Thanks,
J
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