This prevents references to _end from generating absolute
relocation records.
This change is binary invariant for ARM targets.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Current LDS files /DISCARD/ a lot of sections when linking ELF
files, causing diagnostic tools such as readelf or objdump to
produce partial output. Keep all section at link stage, filter
only at objcopy time so that .bin remains minimal.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
This change is only done where needed: some linker
scripts may contain relocation symbols yet remain
unchanged.
__rel_dyn_start and __rel_dyn_end each requires
its own output section; putting them in relocation
sections changes their flags and breaks relocation.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Tested-by: Lubomir Popov <lpopov@mm-sol.com>
Tested-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
This change is only done where needed: some linker
scripts may contain __image_copy_{start,end} yet
remain unchanged.
Also, __image_copy_end needs its own section; putting
it in relocation sections changes their flags and makes
relocation break.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Tested-by: Lubomir Popov <lpopov@mm-sol.com>
Tested-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Discard all .dynsym sections from linker scripts
Remove all __dynsym_start definitions from linker scripts
Remove all __dynsym_start references from the codebase
Note: this touches include/asm-generic/sections.h, which
is not ARM-specific, but actual uses of __dynsym_start
are only in ARM, so this patch can safely go through
the ARM repository.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Tested-by: Lubomir Popov <lpopov@mm-sol.com>
Tested-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Commit 3ebd1cbc introduced compiler-generated __bss_start
and __bss_end__ and commit c23561e7 rewrote all __bss_end__
as __bss_end. Their merge caused silent and harmless but
potentially bug-inducing clashes between compiler- and linker-
generated __bss_end symbols.
Make __bss_end and __bss_start compiler-only, and create
__bss_base and __bss_limit for linker-only use.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Reported-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Let all ARM linker scripts handle properly -ffunction-sections
and -fdata-sections. This will be useful for future changes in order to create
symbol-specific sections in common .S files.
Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Albert's rework of the linker scripts conflicted with Simon's making
everyone use __bss_end. We also had a minor conflict over
README.scrapyard being added to in mainline and enhanced in
u-boot-arm/master with proper formatting.
Conflicts:
arch/arm/cpu/ixp/u-boot.lds
arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds
arch/arm/lib/Makefile
board/actux1/u-boot.lds
board/actux2/u-boot.lds
board/actux3/u-boot.lds
board/dvlhost/u-boot.lds
board/freescale/mx31ads/u-boot.lds
doc/README.scrapyard
include/configs/tegra-common.h
Build tested for all of ARM and run-time tested on am335x_evm.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Note this is a tree-wide change affecting multiple architectures.
At present we use __bss_start, but mostly __bss_end__. This seems
inconsistent and in a number of places __bss_end is used instead.
Change to use __bss_end for the BSS end symbol throughout U-Boot. This
makes it possible to use the asm-generic/sections.h file on all
archs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Refactor linker-generated array code so that symbols
which were previously linker-generated are now compiler-
generated. This causes relocation records of type
R_ARM_ABS32 to become R_ARM_RELATIVE, which makes
code which uses LGA able to run before relocation as
well as after.
Note: this affects more than ARM targets, as linker-
lists span possibly all target architectures, notably
PowerPC.
Conflicts:
arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/u-boot-spl.lds
arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/spear/u-boot-spl.lds
arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/u-boot-spl.lds
board/ait/cam_enc_4xx/u-boot-spl.lds
board/davinci/da8xxevm/u-boot-spl-da850evm.lds
board/davinci/da8xxevm/u-boot-spl-hawk.lds
board/vpac270/u-boot-spl.lds
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Turn __bss_start and __bss_end__ from linker-generated
to compiler-generated symbols, causing relocations for
these symbols to change type, from R_ARM_ABS32 to
R_ARM_RELATIVE.
This should have no functional impact, as it affects
references to __bss_start and __bss_end__ only before
relocation, and no such references are done.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
This patch modifies start.S for the arm1136 to make it
conform to start.S in armv7 architecture, to make it
usable if the SPL framework is used.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
The command declaration now uses the new LG-array method to generate
list of commands. Thus the __u_boot_cmd section is now superseded and
redundant and therefore can be removed. Also, remove externed symbols
associated with this section from include/command.h .
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Add section for the linker-generated lists into all possible linker
files, so that everyone can easily use these lists. This is mostly
a mechanical adjustment.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
This fixes the MX31ADS build by using the new relocation scheme.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Tested-by: Felix Radensky <felix@embedded-sol.com>
Currently, _end is used for end of BSS section. We want _end to mean
end of u-boot image, so we rename _end to __bss_end__ first.
Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@faraday-tech.com>
Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils. As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".
This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.
The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o". This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.
This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols. Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>
Also move lib_$ARCH/config.mk to arch/$ARCH/config.mk
This change is intended to clean up the top-level directory structure
and more closely mimic Linux's directory organization.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
A recent gcc added a new unaligned rodata section called '.rodata.str1.1',
which needs to be added the the linker script. Instead of just adding this
one section, we use a wildcard ".rodata*" to get all rodata linker section
gcc has now and might add in the future.
However, '*(.rodata*)' by itself will result in sub-optimal section
ordering. The sections will be sorted by object file, which causes extra
padding between the unaligned rodata.str.1.1 of one object file and the
aligned rodata of the next object file. This is easy to fix by using the
SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT command.
This patch has not be tested one most of the boards modified. Some boards
have a linker script that looks something like this:
*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.rodata)
*(.rodata.str1.4)
*(.eh_frame)
I change this to:
*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.eh_frame)
*(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*)))
This means the start of rodata will no longer be 16 bytes aligned.
However, the boundary between text and rodata/eh_frame is still aligned to
16 bytes, which is what I think the real purpose of the ALIGN call is.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Most of the bss initialization loop increments 4 bytes
at a time. And the loop end is checked for an 'equal'
condition. Make the bss end address aligned by 4, so
that the loop will end as expected.
Signed-off-by: Selvamuthukumar <selva.muthukumar@e-coninfotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
