u-boot/arch/arm/include
Marek Behún 86c5e21013 ARM: make gd a function call for LTO and set via set_gd()
On ARM, the gd pointer is stored in registers r9 / x18. For this the
-ffixed-r9 / -ffixed-x18 flag is used when compiling, but using global
register variables causes errors when building with LTO, and these
errors are very difficult to overcome.

Richard Biener says [1]:
  Note that global register vars shouldn't be used with LTO and if they
  are restricted to just a few compilation units the recommended fix is
  to build those CUs without -flto.

We cannot do this for U-Boot since all CUs use -ffixed-reg flag.

It seems that with LTO we could in fact store the gd pointer differently
and gain performance or size benefit by allowing the compiler to use
r9 / x18. But this would need more work.

So for now, when building with LTO, go the clang way, and instead of
declaring gd a global register variable, we make it a function call via
macro.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68384

Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-05-24 14:21:30 -04:00
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asm ARM: make gd a function call for LTO and set via set_gd() 2021-05-24 14:21:30 -04:00
debug SPDX: Convert all of our single license tags to Linux Kernel style 2018-05-07 09:34:12 -04:00