On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 01:02:49 UTC, Kees Cook wrote: > From: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]> > > Newer gcc will support "-mno-readonly-in-sdata"[1], which makes sure that > the optimization on PPC32 for variables getting moved into the .sdata > section will not apply to const variables (which must be in .rodata). > > This was originally noticed in mm/rodata_test.c when rodata_test_data > was not static: > > c0695034 g O .data 00000004 rodata_test_data > > After this patch with an updated compiler, this is correctly in .rodata. > > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82411 > > Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/51d42f0f5fd6c74144d19bf6a66352 cheers

