[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/4] arm: relocate the exception vectors

Georges Savoundararadj savoundg at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 23:16:11 CET 2014


This commit relocates the exception vectors.
As ARM1176 and ARMv7 have the security extensions, it uses VBAR.  For
the other ARM processors, it copies the relocated exception vectors to
the correct address: 0x00000000 or 0xFFFF0000.

Signed-off-by: Georges Savoundararadj <savoundg at gmail.com>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
Cc: Tom Warren <twarren at nvidia.com>

---
This patch needs some tests because it impacts many boards. I have
tested it with my raspberry pi in the two cases: using VBAR and
using the copied exception vectors.

Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3:
- Use the CPU feature HAS_VBAR Kconfig symbol

Changes in v2:
- Relocate exception vectors also on processors which do not support
  security extensions
- Reword the commit message

 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S |  6 ------
 arch/arm/lib/relocate.S    | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
index fedd7c8..fdc05b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
@@ -81,12 +81,6 @@ ENTRY(c_runtime_cpu_setup)
 	mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 4	@ DSB
 	mcr     p15, 0, r0, c7, c5, 4	@ ISB
 #endif
-/*
- * Move vector table
- */
-	/* Set vector address in CP15 VBAR register */
-	ldr     r0, =_start
-	mcr     p15, 0, r0, c12, c0, 0  @Set VBAR
 
 	bx	lr
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
index 8035251..b4a258c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
+#include <asm-offsets.h>
+#include <config.h>
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 
 /*
@@ -52,6 +54,34 @@ fixnext:
 	cmp	r2, r3
 	blo	fixloop
 
+	/*
+	 * Relocate the exception vectors
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_VBAR
+	/*
+	 * If the ARM processor has the security extensions,
+	 * use VBAR to relocate the exception vectors.
+	 */
+	ldr	r0, [r9, #GD_RELOCADDR]	/* r0 = gd->relocaddr */
+	mcr     p15, 0, r0, c12, c0, 0  /* Set VBAR */
+#else
+	/*
+	 * Copy the relocated exception vectors to the
+	 * correct address
+	 * CP15 c1 V bit gives us the location of the vectors:
+	 * 0x00000000 or 0xFFFF0000.
+	 */
+	ldr	r0, [r9, #GD_RELOCADDR]	/* r0 = gd->relocaddr */
+	mrc	p15, 0, r2, c1, c0, 0	/* V bit (bit[13]) in CP15 c1 */
+	ands	r2, r2, #(1 << 13)
+	ldreq	r1, =0x00000000 	/* If V=0 */
+	ldrne	r1, =0xFFFF0000 	/* If V=1 */
+	ldmia	r0!, {r2-r8,r10}
+	stmia	r1!, {r2-r8,r10}
+	ldmia	r0!, {r2-r8,r10}
+	stmia	r1!, {r2-r8,r10}
+#endif
+
 relocate_done:
 
 #ifdef __XSCALE__
-- 
2.1.2



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