... into its own CU, for being unrelated to other things in
common/lib.c. For now it gets compiled into built_in.o rather than
lib.a, as it gets used unconditionally by Arm's as well as x86'es
{,__}start_xen(). But this could be changed in principle, the more that
there typically aren't any constructors anyway. Then again it's just
__init code anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
 xen/common/lib.c | 14 --------------
 xen/lib/Makefile |  1 +
 xen/lib/ctors.c  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 xen/lib/ctors.c

diff --git a/xen/common/lib.c b/xen/common/lib.c
index 6cfa332142a5..f5ca179a0af4 100644
--- a/xen/common/lib.c
+++ b/xen/common/lib.c
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #include <xen/lib.h>
 #include <xen/types.h>
-#include <xen/init.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 
 /*
@@ -423,19 +422,6 @@ uint64_t muldiv64(uint64_t a, uint32_t b, uint32_t c)
 #endif
 }
 
-typedef void (*ctor_func_t)(void);
-extern const ctor_func_t __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[];
-
-void __init init_constructors(void)
-{
-    const ctor_func_t *f;
-    for ( f = __ctors_start; f < __ctors_end; ++f )
-        (*f)();
-
-    /* Putting this here seems as good (or bad) as any other place. */
-    BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(ssize_t));
-}
-
 /*
  * Local variables:
  * mode: C
diff --git a/xen/lib/Makefile b/xen/lib/Makefile
index 99f857540c99..ba1fb7bcdee2 100644
--- a/xen/lib/Makefile
+++ b/xen/lib/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+obj-y += ctors.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86) += x86/
 
 lib-y += ctype.o
diff --git a/xen/lib/ctors.c b/xen/lib/ctors.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5bdc591cd50a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xen/lib/ctors.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#include <xen/init.h>
+#include <xen/lib.h>
+
+typedef void (*ctor_func_t)(void);
+extern const ctor_func_t __ctors_start[], __ctors_end[];
+
+void __init init_constructors(void)
+{
+    const ctor_func_t *f;
+    for ( f = __ctors_start; f < __ctors_end; ++f )
+        (*f)();
+
+    /* Putting this here seems as good (or bad) as any other place. */
+    BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(ssize_t));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Local variables:
+ * mode: C
+ * c-file-style: "BSD"
+ * c-basic-offset: 4
+ * tab-width: 4
+ * indent-tabs-mode: nil
+ * End:
+ */
-- 
2.22.0

Hi Jan,

On 23/10/2020 11:18, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... into its own CU, for being unrelated to other things in
> common/lib.c. For now it gets compiled into built_in.o rather than
> lib.a, as it gets used unconditionally by Arm's as well as x86'es
> {,__}start_xen(). 

AFAICT, parse_size_and_unit() is also used unconditionally on both 
architectures.

I think we want to follow the same approach everywhere. If there are no 
major downside to build an archive, then we built in everything in lib/ 
in the archives.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall