[PATCH v1] arm: relocate: Replace ADR instruction with non-pseudo-instruction
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon Jul 11 16:19:53 CEST 2022
On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:11:13 +0100
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:57:40 +0100
> Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:09:53 -0400
> > Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jesse,
> >
> > > In Binutils 2.37 the ADR instruction has changed
> > > use alternate instructions.
> >
> > Can you elaborate on this? What has changed exactly, and why? Looking at
> > the commit you mention below I don't see an immediate problem that would
> > require code changes? Also it speaks of forward references, but this one
> > is not one?
> > And I didn't spot any difference between 2.38 and 2.35, at least not in my
> > isolated test (but I didn't bother to compile a whole stage 1 GCC with
> > newer binutils yet).
>
> OK, so digging a bit deeper I think I have an idea:
> With as 2.35 I get:
> 080007cc <relocate_code>:
> 80007cc: f2af 0304 subw r3, pc, #4
>
> whereas with 2.38 it's:
> 080007cc <relocate_code>:
> 80007cc: f2af 0303 subw r3, pc, #3
>
> the latter looks correct since we compile relocate.S with -mthumb
> -mthumb-interwork, so the lowest bit of the *function* address should be
> set, to indicate this is a Thumb function. And "ENTRY(relocate_code)"
> clearly tells the assembler that relocate_code is a function entry point,
> so should carry the instruction set flag in bit 0.
> However we don't use the result of "adr" as an argument for a bx call
> later, but to calculate some relocation offset, so the bit is getting in
> the way.
> Without thinking too much about this, wouldn't it help to just always
> clear bit 0 in r3?
> Or probably better: to have an additional label, which is not marked as a
> function entry point?
Does that fix it?
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
index 14b7f61c1a..5102bfabde 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ ENDPROC(relocate_vectors)
*/
ENTRY(relocate_code)
- adr r3, relocate_code
+relocate_base:
+ adr r3, relocate_base
ldr r1, _image_copy_start_ofs
add r1, r3 /* r1 <- Run &__image_copy_start */
subs r4, r0, r1 /* r4 <- Run to copy offset */
Seems to generate the same code with both gas 2.35 and gas 2.38.
Cheers,
Andre
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
> > > The change causes armv7-m to not boot.
> >
> > What does "causes armv7-m to not boot" mean? It compiles fine, but hangs
> > or crashes?
> > Can you show the relevant disassembly from both binutils versions?
> >
> > And from trying to reproduce this minimally, do we need a ".syntax unified"
> > in the .S file?
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Taube <Mr.Bossman075 at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/lib/relocate.S | 8 +++++++-
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
> > > index 14b7f61c1a..22c419534f 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/lib/relocate.S
> > > @@ -78,7 +78,13 @@ ENDPROC(relocate_vectors)
> > > */
> > >
> > > ENTRY(relocate_code)
> > > - adr r3, relocate_code
> > > +/*
> > > + * Binutils doesn't comply with the arm docs for adr in thumb2
> > > + * from commit d3e52e120b68bf19552743fbc078e0a759f48cb7 onward
> > > + * to remove ambiguity explicitly define the pseudo-instruction
> > > + */
> > > + mov r3, pc
> > > + subs r3, #4
> >
> > But this will break ARM, won't it? Because it would require to subtract #8?
> > I mean there is a reason for this adr instruction, because this offset
> > calculation is best left to the assembler. Not to speak of the fragility
> > of assuming that the relocate_code label is pointing to the very first
> > instruction. The ENTRY macro could also insert instructions.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andre
> >
> > > ldr r1, _image_copy_start_ofs
> > > add r1, r3 /* r1 <- Run &__image_copy_start */
> > > subs r4, r0, r1 /* r4 <- Run to copy offset */
> >
>
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