[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/3] arm: discard relocation entry for secure section

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hello Peng,

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:59:53 +0800, Peng Fan <Peng.Fan at freescale.com>
wrote:
> The code such as PSCI in section named secure is bundled with
> u-boot image, and when bootm, the code will be copied to their
> runtime address same to compliation/linking address -
> CONFIG_ARMV7_SECURE_BASE.
> 
> When compile the PSCI code and link it into the u-boot image,
> there will be relocation entries in .rel.dyn section for PSCI.
> Actually, we do not needs these relocation entries.
> 
> If still keep the relocation entries in .rel.dyn section,
> r0 at line 103 and 106 in arch/arm/lib/relocate.S may be an invalid
> address which may not support read/write for one SoC.
> 102         /* relative fix: increase location by offset */
> 103         add     r0, r0, r4
> 104         ldr     r1, [r0]
> 105         add     r1, r1, r4
> 106         str     r1, [r0]
> 
> So discard the relocation entries for code in secure section.

Actually, I'll need you to do a slight change -- that's my fault, and
karma even ensured that my own self of two years ago would be the one
to come and kick me. See:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-December/168652.html

Which basically is about never discarding any section in the ELF file,
and only copying a subset of the ELF sections into the binary file.

So rather than discarding the secure relocation records, let's move
them to another section as you had proposed, and thus change the line

> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.rel._secure*) }

Into a

	.rel._secure { *(.rel._secure*) }

Placed right after the already present

	.dynamic : { *(.dynamic*) }

With my apologies for the very late realization.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.