[PATCH] riscv: Fix alignment of RELA sections in the linker scripts

[Leo Liang]

Hi Rick, Bin,
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 09:12:35AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 8:50 AM Rick Chen <rickchen36 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bin Meng <bmeng at tinylab.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 11:07 PM
> > > To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> > > Cc: Andrew Scull <ascull at google.com>; Leo Yu-Chi Liang(梁育齊) <ycliang at andestech.com>; Rick Jian-Zhi Chen(陳建志) <rick at andestech.com>; Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] riscv: Fix alignment of RELA sections in the linker scripts
> > >
> > > In current linker script both .efi_runtime_rel and .rela.dyn sections are of RELA type whose entry size is either 12 (RV32) or 24 (RV64).
> > > These two are arranged as an continuous region on purpose so that the prelink-riscv executable can fix up the PIE addresses in one loop.
> > >
> > > However there is an 'ALIGN(8)' between these 2 sections which might cause a gap to be inserted between thesse 2 sections to satify the alignment requirement on RV32. This would break the assumption of the prelink process and generate an unbootable image.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 9a6569a043d3 ("riscv: Update alignment for some sections in linker scripts")
> > > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng at tinylab.org>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > This fix should go into the v2023.07 release.
> > >
> > >  arch/riscv/cpu/u-boot.lds | 4 +---
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Rick Chen <rick at andestech.com>
> >
> > Hi Leo,
> >
> > Please help to push this patch ASAP.
> >
> 
> Thanks Rick. I will respin a v2 to fix the typos in the commit message.
> 
> Regards,
> Bin

Thanks for the catch and the reminder.
The patch has been merged.

Best regards,
Leo