[PATCH v2] sandbox: cleanup linker scripts and sections

Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Mon Jun 17 17:14:18 CEST 2024


commit 6e2228fb052b ("Merge patch series "Clean up arm linker scripts"")
was cleaning up linker scripts for armv7 and v8 in a similar fashion.

Several commits in the past -- e.g
commit d0b5d9da5de2 ("arm: make _end compiler-generated")
was moving symbols to be compiler generated. They were defined as c
variables in its own section to force the compiler emit relative a
reference. However, defining those in the linker script will do the
same thing since [0].

So let's remove the special sections from the linker scripts, the
variable definitions from sections.c, and define them as a symbols.
It's worth noting that the linker was discarding the symbols in the
older binary completely since the symbol definition had an extra _.

- new binary
$~ aarch64-linux-gnu-readelf -sW u-boot | grep efi_runtim
   246: 000000000004acbe    13 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   14 vbe_req_efi_runtime_rand
  3198: 0000000000318690    16 OBJECT  LOCAL  DEFAULT   29 efi_runtime_mmio
  6359: 00000000000dedff   217 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   14 efi_runtime_relocate
  7942: 00000000003074c0   136 OBJECT  GLOBAL HIDDEN    29 efi_runtime_services
  8869: 0000000000305e20     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   27 __efi_runtime_rel_stop
  9159: 0000000000305e20     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   27 __efi_runtime_stop
  9410: 0000000000305e20     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   27 __efi_runtime_start
 10137: 00000000005981bd     0 NOTYPE  WEAK   HIDDEN    33 efi_runtime.c.de5bed54
 10470: 0000000000305e20     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   27 __efi_runtime_rel_start

- old binary
$~ aarch64-linux-gnu-readelf -sW u-boot.old | grep efi_runtim
   246: 000000000004acbe    13 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   14 vbe_req_efi_runtime_rand
  3198: 0000000000318690    16 OBJECT  LOCAL  DEFAULT   29 efi_runtime_mmio
  6359: 00000000000dedff   221 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT   14 efi_runtime_relocate
  7942: 00000000003074c0   136 OBJECT  GLOBAL HIDDEN    29 efi_runtime_services
 10135: 0000000000598320     0 NOTYPE  WEAK   HIDDEN    33 efi_runtime.c.de5bed54

$~ bloat-o-meter u-bool.old u-boot
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 7/-4 (3)
Function                                     old     new   delta
efi_memory_init                              343     350      +7
efi_runtime_relocate                         221     217      -4
Total: Before=2009902, After=2009905, chg +0.00%

[0] binutils commit 6b3b0ab89663 ("Make linker assigned symbol dynamic only for shared object")

Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> # sandbox_defconfig on amd64, arm64, riscv64
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Fixes: commit aac53d3d96a2 ("sandbox: Rename EFI runtime sections")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
---
Changes since v1:
- Added Fixes tag
- Collected tags from Heinrich and Simon

 arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds | 20 ++++----------------
 arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile   |  2 +-
 arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c | 13 -------------
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c

diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
index 52f13af3742f..6ee8095b6cbb 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -19,30 +19,18 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(_u_boot_sandbox_getopt_end)
 	}

-	efi_runtime_start : {
-		*(___efi_runtime_start)
-	}
-
 	efi_runtime : {
+                __efi_runtime_start = .;
 		*(efi_runtime_text)
 		*(efi_runtime_data)
-	}
-
-	efi_runtime_stop : {
-		*(___efi_runtime_stop)
-	}
-
-	efi_runtime_rel_start : {
-		*(___efi_runtime_rel_start)
+                __efi_runtime_stop = .;
 	}

 	efi_runtime_rel : {
+                __efi_runtime_rel_start = .;
 		*(.relefi_runtime_text)
 		*(.relefi_runtime_data)
-	}
-
-	efi_runtime_rel_stop : {
-		*(___efi_runtime_rel_stop)
+                __efi_runtime_rel_stop = .;
 	}

 	.dynsym :
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile b/arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile
index a2bc5a7ee60f..d7d15a50bb6c 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002-2006
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd at denx.de.

-obj-y	+= fdt_fixup.o interrupts.o sections.o
+obj-y			+= fdt_fixup.o interrupts.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PCI)	+= pci_io.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTM) += bootm.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTZ) += bootm.o
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c b/arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f2f3fbfdb86..000000000000
--- a/arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
-/*
- * Copyright 2013 Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
- *
- */
-#include <linux/compiler.h>
-
-char __efi_runtime_start[0] __section("___efi_runtime_start");
-char __efi_runtime_stop[0] __section("___efi_runtime_stop");
-char __efi_runtime_rel_start[0]
-		__section("___efi_runtime_rel_start");
-char __efi_runtime_rel_stop[0]
-		__section("___efi_runtime_rel_stop");
--
2.45.2



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