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ARM: Fix XIP kernels
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:51:19 +0000 (23:51 +0000)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:51:19 +0000 (23:51 +0000)
commit1c6051a9da72289217d19a42171b97eed42bbcca
treeb36ee4e768c27bd0929b4b4f1f7341f997da21e7
parent9f7d93a3941e2275c847cf58af00dc971307022c
ARM: Fix XIP kernels

Commit 89cac7585d91 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init") caused
a regression with XIP kernels by moving the __ro_after_init data into
the read-only section.  With XIP kernels, the read-only section is
located in read-only memory from the very beginning.

Work around this by moving the __ro_after_init data back into the .data
section, which will be in RAM, and hence will be writable.

It should be noted that in doing so, this remains writable after init.

Fixes: 89cac7585d91 ("ARM: 8595/2: apply more __ro_after_init")
Reported-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> [ XIP stm32 ]
Tested-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S