Re: [PATCH] x86/alternatives: mark .altinstructions r/w

[Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 09:15:46AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Forever since the introduction of the .priv member it has been wrong to
> record the section as r/o.
> 
> .alt_call_sites, otoh, is legitimately r/o, hence
> __alt_call_sites_{start,end}[] would better reflect that.

Right, we don't however have a .init.rodata section, and hence it gets
placed in the .init.data section which is r/w.  No objection about the
addition of const, it's the right thing.

> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think you want:

Fixes: 4008c71d7af2 ("x86/alt: Support for automatic padding calculations")

Thanks, Roger.