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SubjectRe: [PATCH] efi/libstub/arm64: Enable __efistub_global define in .data section
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 23:44, Victor Erminpour
<victor.erminpour@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Enable the __efistub_global define to place variables in the
> .data section for both CONFIG_ARM and CONFIG_ARM64.
>
> This places the EFIstub sys_table variable and other EFIstub
> static variables in the .data section for both CONFIG_ARM and
> CONFIG_ARM64.
>

What does that achieve?

> Signed-off-by: Victor Erminpour <victor.erminpour@oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> index c244b16..59932d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
> #define EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN EFI_PAGE_SIZE
> #endif
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
> #define __efistub_global __section(.data)
> #else
> #define __efistub_global

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