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author | Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com> | 2015-08-12 14:23:32 (GMT) |
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committer | Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> | 2015-08-20 13:23:15 (GMT) |
commit | 6de6066c0d24a66df465cf87a4041ef7ef35ba6f (patch) | |
tree | f04687c44c4d3e537fcd83e287c9132d8737ef1e /arch | |
parent | eb2cd8b72b08fe56998600aee8a5dff93f7be5a2 (diff) | |
download | linux-6de6066c0d24a66df465cf87a4041ef7ef35ba6f.tar.xz |
ARC: change some branchs to jumps to resolve linkage errors
When kernel's binary becomes large enough (32M and more) errors
may occur during the final linkage stage. It happens because
the build system uses short relocations for ARC by default.
This problem may be easily resolved by passing -mlong-calls
option to GCC to use long absolute jumps (j) instead of short
relative branchs (b).
But there are fragments of pure assembler code exist which use
branchs in inappropriate places and cause a linkage error because
of relocations overflow.
First of these fragments is .fixup insertion in futex.h and
unaligned.c. It inserts a code in the separate section (.fixup)
with branch instruction. It leads to the linkage error when
kernel becomes large.
Second of these fragments is calling scheduler's functions
(common kernel code) from entry.S of ARC's code. When kernel's
binary becomes large it may lead to the linkage error because
scheduler may occur far enough from ARC's code in the final
binary.
Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c | 6 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h index 8f44998..11e1b1f 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/futex.h @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ " .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \ " .align 4 \n" \ "4: mov %0, %4 \n" \ - " b 3b \n" \ + " j 3b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \ " .align 4 \n" \ @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ " .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" \ " .align 4 \n" \ "4: mov %0, %4 \n" \ - " b 3b \n" \ + " j 3b \n" \ " .previous \n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" \ " .align 4 \n" \ @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr, u32 expval, "3: \n" " .section .fixup,\"ax\" \n" "4: mov %0, %5 \n" - " b 3b \n" + " j 3b \n" " .previous \n" " .section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" " .align 4 \n" diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S index f7a82fd..589abf5 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/entry.S @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork) ; when the forked child comes here from the __switch_to function ; r0 has the last task pointer. ; put last task in scheduler queue - bl @schedule_tail + jl @schedule_tail ld r9, [sp, PT_status32] brne r9, 0, 1f @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ resume_user_mode_begin: ; --- (Slow Path #1) task preemption --- bbit0 r9, TIF_NEED_RESCHED, .Lchk_pend_signals mov blink, resume_user_mode_begin ; tail-call to U mode ret chks - b @schedule ; BTST+Bnz causes relo error in link + j @schedule ; BTST+Bnz causes relo error in link .Lchk_pend_signals: IRQ_ENABLE r10 @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ resume_kernel_mode: bbit0 r9, TIF_NEED_RESCHED, .Lrestore_regs ; Invoke PREEMPTION - bl preempt_schedule_irq + jl preempt_schedule_irq ; preempt_schedule_irq() always returns with IRQ disabled #endif diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c b/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c index 74db59b..abd961f 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ "3: mov %0, 1\n" \ - " b 2b\n" \ + " j 2b\n" \ " .previous\n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ "4: mov %0, 1\n" \ - " b 3b\n" \ + " j 3b\n" \ " .previous\n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ " .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ "6: mov %0, 1\n" \ - " b 5b\n" \ + " j 5b\n" \ " .previous\n" \ " .section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ |