[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/4] x86: use EFI calling convention for efi_main on x86_64

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Tue Jun 12 18:56:19 UTC 2018



On 12.06.18 19:51, Ivan Gorinov wrote:
> UEFI specifies the calling convention used in Microsoft compilers;
> first arguments of a function are passed in (%rcx, %rdx, %r8, %r9).
> 
> All other compilers use System V ABI by default, passing first integer
> arguments of a function in (%rdi, %rsi, %rdx, %rcx, %r8, %r9).
> 
> These ABI also specify different sets of registers that must be preserved
> across function calls (callee-saved).
> 
> GCC allows using the Microsoft calling convention by adding the ms_abi
> attribute to a function declaration.
> 
> Current EFI implementation in U-Boot specifies EFIAPI for efi_main()
> in the test apps but uses default calling convention in lib/efi.
> The arguments of efi_main() are also passed as unused arguments to the
> _relocate() function.
> 
> Save efi_main() arguments in the startup code on x86_64;
> use EFI calling convention for _relocate() on x86_64;
> remove unused _relocate() arguments;
> consistently use EFI calling convention for efi_main() everywhere.

Looks reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>


Alex

> 
> v4:
>   Keeping .exit label in x86_64 startup code;
>   Also removed the unused _relocate() arguments for arm, x86, riscv.
> 
> v3:
>   Updated patch description.
> 
> v2:
>   Added EFIABI to _relocate() declaration.
> 
> Ivan Gorinov (4):
>   x86: use EFI calling convention for efi_main on x86_64
>   arm: Remove unused _relocate arguments
>   x86: Remove unused _relocate arguments
>   riscv: Remove unused _relocate arguments
> 
>  arch/arm/lib/crt0_aarch64_efi.S  |  2 --
>  arch/arm/lib/crt0_arm_efi.S      |  2 --
>  arch/arm/lib/reloc_aarch64_efi.c |  3 +--
>  arch/arm/lib/reloc_arm_efi.c     |  3 +--
>  arch/riscv/lib/reloc_riscv_efi.c |  3 +--
>  arch/x86/lib/crt0_x86_64_efi.S   | 21 ++++++++++-----------
>  arch/x86/lib/reloc_ia32_efi.c    |  3 +--
>  arch/x86/lib/reloc_x86_64_efi.c  |  3 +--
>  lib/efi/efi_app.c                |  3 ++-
>  lib/efi/efi_stub.c               |  3 ++-
>  10 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 


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