On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 25/10/2023 9:52 pm, Pawan Gupta wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S > > index bfb7bcb362bc..f8ba0c0b6e60 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S > > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S > > @@ -20,3 +23,16 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(entry_ibpb) > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(entry_ibpb); > > > > .popsection > > + > > +.pushsection .entry.text, "ax" > > + > > +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc > > +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel) > > + UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED > > + ANNOTATE_NOENDBR > > + .word __KERNEL_DS > > You need another .align here. Otherwise subsequent code will still > start in this cacheline and defeat the purpose of trying to keep it > separate. > > > +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel); > > Thinking about it, should this really be CODE and not a data entry? > > It lives in .entry.text but it really is data and objtool shouldn't be > writing ORC data for it at all. > > (Not to mention that if it's marked as STT_OBJECT, objdump -d will do > the sensible thing and not even try to disassemble it). > > ~Andrew > > P.S. Please CC on the full series. Far less effort than fishing the > rest off lore. +1 to putting it in .rodata or so. -- Josh