Re: [PATCH for-4.22?] x86/EFI: arrange for non-discardable .reloc in xen.efi

[Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/16/26 6:17 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Loaders respecting IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE would not load such sections,
> yet we need to access it ourselves when switching out of "physical mode".
> Leverage behavior new to GNU ld 2.46: Any contribution to .reloc which
> doesn't have the discardable flag set (which cannot even be expressed in
> ELF) will yield the output section also non-discardable.
>
> Since for intermediate binaries we don't care about section attributes,
> link in the new object only on the final linking pass.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Release-Acked-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

~ Oleksii