On 27.03.25 15:13, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:55:39AM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> I'd prefer a general way to handle this problem, like e.g. some kind of
>> __refdata tagging for percpu variables.
> 
> Any reason for not doing the trivial thing?
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c b/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
> index 10c660fae8b3..100bfaba3f4d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ struct mc_debug_data {
>   };
>   
>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mc_buffer, mc_buffer);
> -static struct mc_debug_data mc_debug_data_early __initdata;
> +static struct mc_debug_data mc_debug_data_early;
>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mc_debug_data *, mc_debug_data) =
>   	&mc_debug_data_early;
>   static struct mc_debug_data __percpu *mc_debug_data_ptr;

Well, that is wasting nearly 3kB of the data section.

Maybe not a big deal, but still...


Juergen