[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: start{, 64}.S: fill branch delay slots with NOP instructions

Gabor Juhos juhosg at openwrt.org
Wed Jan 16 14:05:01 CET 2013


The romReserved and romExcHandle handlers are
accessed by a branch instruction however the
delay slots of those instructions are not filled.

Because the start.S uses the 'noreorder' directive,
the assembler will not fill the delay slots either,
and leads to the following assembly code:

  0000056c <romReserved>:
   56c:   1000ffff        b       56c <romReserved>

  00000570 <romExcHandle>:
   570:   1000ffff        b       570 <romExcHandle>

In the resulting code, the second branch instruction
is placed into the delay slot of the first branch
instruction, which is not allowed on the MIPS
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg at openwrt.org>
Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at googlemail.com>
---
 arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S |    2 ++
 arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S |    1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S b/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S
index 9c1b2f7..22a9c1b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S
+++ b/arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S
@@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ in_ram:
 	/* Exception handlers */
 romReserved:
 	b	romReserved
+	 nop
 
 romExcHandle:
 	b	romExcHandle
+	 nop
diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S
index 2b8d531..bc7e41e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S
+++ b/arch/mips/cpu/mips64/start.S
@@ -259,3 +259,4 @@ in_ram:
 	/* Exception handlers */
 romReserved:
 	b	romReserved
+	 nop
-- 
1.7.10



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