[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] arm: add support for semihosting for ARMv7M targets

Vadzim Dambrouski pftbest at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 18:40:14 CEST 2015


If you enable CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING for STM32F429 target, you will get compile
error looking like this:

arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c: In function 'smh_read':
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:34: Error: invalid swi expression
{standard input}:34: Error: value of 1193046 too large for field of 2 bytes at 0
scripts/Makefile.build:277: recipe for target 'arch/arm/lib/semihosting.o' failed

The source of the problem is "svc #0x123456" instruction. This instruction
can not be encoded using Thumb2 instruction set used by ARMv7M CPUs.
ARM documentation suggests using "bkpt #0xAB" instruction instead [1].
This patch fixes compile errors and adds support for semihosting for
STM32F429 or any other ARMv7M target.
This change was sested on STM32F429-DISCOVERY board using OpenOCD and
"smhload" u-boot command.

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0471c/Bgbjhiea.html

Signed-off-by: Vadzim Dambrouski <pftbest at gmail.com>
---

 arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c b/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c
index c3e964e..ed5e8e4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static noinline long smh_trap(unsigned int sysnum, void *addr)
 	register long result asm("r0");
 #if defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
 	asm volatile ("hlt #0xf000" : "=r" (result) : "0"(sysnum), "r"(addr));
+#elif defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7M)
+	asm volatile ("bkpt #0xAB" : "=r" (result) : "0"(sysnum), "r"(addr));
 #else
 	/* Note - untested placeholder */
 	asm volatile ("svc #0x123456" : "=r" (result) : "0"(sysnum), "r"(addr));
-- 
2.6.1



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