Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] alternative/x86/arm32: Align altinstructions (and altinstr_replacement) sections.

2017-07-31 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 07/26/17 9:50 PM >>> >On x86 the bloat-o-meter detects that with this change the file shrinks: >add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 156/-367 (-211) >function old new delta >get_page_from_gfn

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] alternative/x86/arm32: Align altinstructions (and altinstr_replacement) sections.

2017-07-26 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
This is very similar to 137c59b9ff3f7a214f03b52d9c00a0a02374af1f "bug/x86/arm: Align bug_frames sections." On ARM and on x86 the C and assembler macros don't include any alignment information - hence they end up being the default byte granularity. On ARM32 it is paramount that the alignment is