[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: arm64: only use general regs

Peng Fan peng.fan at nxp.com
Tue Nov 28 02:09:37 UTC 2017


When compiling with android toolchain, there is an instruction
"str     q0, [x8],#16", but x8 is not 16bytes aligned,
this instruction will trigger sync abort.

So, following Linux kernel, only use general regs for arm64.
If not, compiler may use simd registers Q[x]. We need to avoid
using simd registers in U-Boot, because load/store Q[x] has
restriction that 128bits aligned when str/ldr.

Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
---
 arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 5881fdc8e2..4db0398dde 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ arch-$(CONFIG_CPU_ARM1136)	=-march=armv5
 arch-$(CONFIG_CPU_ARM1176)	=-march=armv5t
 arch-$(CONFIG_CPU_V7)		=$(call cc-option, -march=armv7-a, \
 				 $(call cc-option, -march=armv7, -march=armv5))
-arch-$(CONFIG_ARM64)		=-march=armv8-a
+arch-$(CONFIG_ARM64)		=-march=armv8-a -mgeneral-regs-only
 
 # On Tegra systems we must build SPL for the armv4 core on the device
 # but otherwise we can use the value in CONFIG_SYS_ARM_ARCH
-- 
2.14.1



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