On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:15:23PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Segher Boessenkool > <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to get that file to build at all :-)
> $ CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc make wii_defconfig > $ for i in CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX \ > CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL \ > CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST ; do > CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc ./scripts/config -e $i > done I use ppc6xx_defconfig normally; I had to disable CONFIG_HIBERNATION as well. Without the new flag, rodata_test_data ends up in .sdata in the object file and in .data in vmlinux. Adding === diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index ccd2556..31b9613 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mcmodel=med CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += $(call cc-option,-mno-pointers-to-nested-functions) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32) := -ffixed-r2 $(MULTIPLEWORD) +CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32) += $(call cc-option,-mno-readonly-in-sdata) + ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64),y) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU) += $(call cc-option,-mtune=power7,-mtune=power4) CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU) += -mcpu=power4 === it ends up in .rodata in both. It would be nice to have a more comprehensive test, but this will do; I'll commit it tomorrow (will resend, with doc and changelog and all that). Cheers, Segher