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author | Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> | 2009-04-21 00:34:15 -0700 |
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committer | Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> | 2009-05-11 23:40:33 -0700 |
commit | 78f3cdfa2ac0aa2b72b3ee7e4b3c3e550230179f (patch) | |
tree | 93436cac4fd7937ac298498f3aeddf38bd147ad0 /fs | |
parent | 866e514d6a584810dc3ae25364f823b890b7d312 (diff) |
xtensa: Fix linker script to include .literal sections
Fix resembles implementation from Marc Gauthier and Piet Denaly:
In the Xtensa architecture, assembly generates literals which must always
precede the code (the L32R instruction that loads them only uses negative
PC-relative offsets). For any *.text section, literals are placed in a
corresponding *.literal section. The linker script (vmlinux.lds) must
place these in the correct order. It must also combine them, when the
*.text section can be larger than L32R's 256 kB range.
For example, this doesn't work: *(.literal) *(.text) because L32R
instructions at the end of .text can't reach the literals.
The linker can solve this if they are combined in parentheses, like this:
*(.literal .text)
because it is now allowed mix literals in .text to bring them in range.
None of this is done by standard vmlinux.lds.h macros such as TEXT_TEXT
and INIT_TEXT. To avoid replicating the logic of that header file, we
instead post-process the generated linker script to convert *(xxx.text)
to *(xxx.literal xxx.text) for the following text sections:
.text .ref.text .*init.text .*exit.text .text.*
using a sed script. To do this we must override the default rule for
vmlinux.lds (see scripts/Makefile.build and the top-level Makefile)
to insert this extra step.
Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier <marc@tensilica.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Delaney <piet@tensilica.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
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