[PATCH] lds: align u-boot-nodtb with 8 bytes boundary

Eugen Hristev eugen.hristev at microchip.com
Thu Dec 15 12:58:25 CET 2022


Newer DTC require that the DTB start address is aligned at 8 bytes.
In the u-boot.bin case, the u-boot-nodtb.bin is concatenated with the
DTB, but there is no alignment/padding to the next 8byte aligned address.
This causes the board to fail booting, because the FDT will claim
that the DTB inside u-boot.bin is not a valid DTB, it will fail with
-FDT_ERR_ALIGNMENT.
To solve this, have the u-boot binary `_end` aligned with 8 bytes.
The objcopy in the Makefile will create the u-boot-nodtb.bin and it has to
be truncated to 8 bytes to correspond to the u-boot.map file which will
have the `_end` aligned to 8 bytes.
The lds files which use devicetrees have been changed to align the `_end`
tag with 8 bytes.

This patch is also a prerequisite to have the possibility to update the
dtc inside u-boot to newer versions (1.6.1+)

Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev <eugen.hristev at microchip.com>
---
Hi,

I could not test all affected boards, it's an impossible task.
I tried this on at91 boards which I have, and ran the CI on denx.
I cannot guarantee that no other boards are affected, so this patch is a bit
of an RFC.
If the u-boot-nodtb.bin does not have the size equal with the corresponding
one in u-boot.map, the binary_size_check will fail at build time with
something like this:

u-boot.map shows a binary size of 502684
but u-boot-nodtb.bin shows 502688

Thanks,
Eugen

 Makefile                                    | 2 ++
 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds               | 4 ++--
 arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds                 | 1 +
 arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds                     | 1 +
 arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds                | 5 +++++
 arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 +-
 arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds     | 2 +-
 arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds           | 2 +-
 arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds                    | 2 +-
 arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds                 | 6 ++++++
 arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds                      | 2 ++
 board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds                  | 1 +
 tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds   | 2 +-
 13 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9d84f96481..b4d387bcce 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1317,6 +1317,8 @@ endif
 
 u-boot-nodtb.bin: u-boot FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,objcopy_uboot)
+# Make sure the size is 8 byte-aligned.
+	@truncate -s %8 $@
 	$(BOARD_SIZE_CHECK)
 
 u-boot.ldr:	u-boot
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
index 8fe4682dd2..e5fa4ef95c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.__rel_dyn_end)
 	}
 
-	_end = .;
-
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 
+	_end = .;
+
 	.bss_start : {
 		KEEP(*(.__bss_start));
 	}
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
index fb2189d50d..732ed42db1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	.end :
 	{
+		. = ALIGN(8);
 		*(.__end)
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds
index f25f72b2e0..274e1a7d30 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	.end :
 	{
+		. = ALIGN(8);
 		*(.__end)
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds b/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds
index 767ebda635..f3867021d3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ SECTIONS
 	.rel.data : { *(.rel.data) *(.rel.data*) }
 	_data_size = . - _etext;
 
+	.end : {
+		. = ALIGN(8);
+		*(.__end)
+	}
+
 	/DISCARD/ : {
 		*(.rel.reloc)
 		*(.eh_frame)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds
index 1a8bf94dee..d7e5d81ecc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(4);
 	__u_boot_list : { KEEP(*(SORT(__u_boot_list*))) } > .sram
 
-	. = ALIGN(4);
+	. = ALIGN(8);
 	__image_copy_end = .;
 
 	.end :
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds
index 6ca725fc4c..2a0a1b4b86 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(4);
 	__u_boot_list : { KEEP(*(SORT(__u_boot_list*))) } > .sram
 
-	. = ALIGN(4);
+	. = ALIGN(8);
 	__image_copy_end = .;
 
 	.end :
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds
index 8c18d3f91f..c0320dbe1e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		KEEP(*(SORT(__u_boot_list*)));
 	} > .sram
 
-	. = ALIGN(4);
+	. = ALIGN(8);
 
 	_image_binary_end = .;
 
diff --git a/arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds
index 9a4ebcd151..182e9bc6e5 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		. += CONFIG_MIPS_RELOCATION_TABLE_SIZE - 4;
 	}
 
-	. = ALIGN(4);
+	. = ALIGN(8);
 	_end = .;
 
 	.bss __rel_start (OVERLAY) : {
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
index ba8dee50c7..3fbca6d248 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.dynsym)
 		__dyn_sym_end = .;
 	}
+
+	.end :
+	{
+		. = ALIGN(8);
+		*(.__end)
+	}
 }
 
 INSERT BEFORE .data;
diff --git a/arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds
index d360eea7eb..226f50b19c 100644
--- a/arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ SECTIONS
 		KEEP(*(SORT(__u_boot_list*)));
 	} >ram
 
+	. = ALIGN(8);
+
 	PROVIDE (__init_end = .);
 	PROVIDE (reloc_dst_end = .);
 	PROVIDE (_end = .);
diff --git a/board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds b/board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds
index 087dee8bb2..deb9098a90 100644
--- a/board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds
+++ b/board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	.end :
 	{
+		. = ALIGN(8);
 		*(.__end)
 	}
 
diff --git a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds
index e213fa8a84..93c0ae6aed 100644
--- a/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds
+++ b/tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(.text*)
 	}
 
-	. = ALIGN(4);
+	. = ALIGN(8);
 	.data : {
 		dtb_embed_begin = .;
 		KEEP(*(.mydtb));
-- 
2.25.1



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