[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] ARM: use r9 for gd

Jeroen Hofstee jeroen at myspectrum.nl
Sun Aug 11 22:58:39 CEST 2013


To be more EABI compliant and as a preparation for building
with clang, use the platform-specific r9 register for gd
instead of r8.

note: The FIQ is not updated since it is not used in u-boot,
and under discussion for the time being.

The following checkpatch warning is ignoredL
WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen at myspectrum.nl>
---
 arch/arm/config.mk                 |  2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm/lib/crt0.S                | 16 ++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/config.mk b/arch/arm/config.mk
index 5e382ab..5f6e032 100644
--- a/arch/arm/config.mk
+++ b/arch/arm/config.mk
@@ -99,4 +99,4 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD),y)
 ALL-y	+= checkarmreloc
 endif
 
-OPTION_FIXED_GD=$(call cc-option, -ffixed-r8)
+OPTION_FIXED_GD=$(call cc-option, -ffixed-r9)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
index 79a9597..e126436 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h
@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ struct arch_global_data {
 
 #include <asm-generic/global_data.h>
 
-#define DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR     register volatile gd_t *gd asm ("r8")
+#define DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR     register volatile gd_t *gd asm ("r9")
 
 #endif /* __ASM_GBL_DATA_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
index 960d12e..ac54b93 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ENTRY(_main)
 	bic	sp, sp, #7	/* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
 	sub	sp, #GD_SIZE	/* allocate one GD above SP */
 	bic	sp, sp, #7	/* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
-	mov	r8, sp		/* GD is above SP */
+	mov	r9, sp		/* GD is above SP */
 	mov	r0, #0
 	bl	board_init_f
 
@@ -81,15 +81,15 @@ ENTRY(_main)
  * 'here' but relocated.
  */
 
-	ldr	sp, [r8, #GD_START_ADDR_SP]	/* sp = gd->start_addr_sp */
+	ldr	sp, [r9, #GD_START_ADDR_SP]	/* sp = gd->start_addr_sp */
 	bic	sp, sp, #7	/* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
-	ldr	r8, [r8, #GD_BD]		/* r8 = gd->bd */
-	sub	r8, r8, #GD_SIZE		/* new GD is below bd */
+	ldr	r9, [r9, #GD_BD]		/* r9 = gd->bd */
+	sub	r9, r9, #GD_SIZE		/* new GD is below bd */
 
 	adr	lr, here
-	ldr	r0, [r8, #GD_RELOC_OFF]		/* r0 = gd->reloc_off */
+	ldr	r0, [r9, #GD_RELOC_OFF]		/* r0 = gd->reloc_off */
 	add	lr, lr, r0
-	ldr	r0, [r8, #GD_RELOCADDR]		/* r0 = gd->relocaddr */
+	ldr	r0, [r9, #GD_RELOCADDR]		/* r0 = gd->relocaddr */
 	b	relocate_code
 here:
 
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ clbss_l:cmp	r0, r1			/* while not at end of BSS */
 	bl red_led_on
 
 	/* call board_init_r(gd_t *id, ulong dest_addr) */
-	mov	r0, r8			/* gd_t */
-	ldr	r1, [r8, #GD_RELOCADDR]	/* dest_addr */
+	mov     r0, r9                  /* gd_t */
+	ldr	r1, [r9, #GD_RELOCADDR]	/* dest_addr */
 	/* call board_init_r */
 	ldr	pc, =board_init_r	/* this is auto-relocated! */
 
-- 
1.8.1.2



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