[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] arm926ejs: 16-byte align stack to avoid LDRD/STRD problems
Tom
Tom.Rix at windriver.com
Mon Oct 5 20:37:36 CEST 2009
Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> U-boot for Marvell Kirkwood boards no longer work after the EABI changes
> introduced in commit f772acf8a584067033eff1e231fcd1fb3a00d3d9. This
> turns out to be caused by a stack alignment issue. The armv5te
> instructions ldrd/strd instructions require 8-byte alignment to work
> properly (otherwise undefined behavior), and start.S gave the stack a
> 12-byte alignment.
>
> Tested on an OpenRD base board, where both printouts and ubifs stuff now
> works.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net>
Has this patch been tested on any other boards ?
This patch looks ok, I am just concerned about regressions.
Tom
> ---
> ChangeLog:
> v2: Update after Andrews comments
> * Mask away the low address bits to get 16-byte alignment
>
> cpu/arm926ejs/start.S | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S b/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S
> index 8043322..cd3a6bd 100644
> --- a/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S
> +++ b/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S
> @@ -171,7 +171,10 @@ stack_setup:
> #ifdef CONFIG_USE_IRQ
> sub r0, r0, #(CONFIG_STACKSIZE_IRQ+CONFIG_STACKSIZE_FIQ)
> #endif
> - sub sp, r0, #12 /* leave 3 words for abort-stack */
> + sub r0, r0, #12 /* leave 3 words for abort-stack and */
> + mov r1, #7 /* 8-byte align stack for ldrd/strd */
> + and r1, r0
> + sub sp, r0, r1
>
> clear_bss:
> ldr r0, _bss_start /* find start of bss segment */
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