[Buildroot] Fwd: [PATCH] arm: ensure symbol is a thumb symbol in new binutils
Romain Naour
romain.naour at gmail.com
Thu May 31 21:16:19 UTC 2018
Hi Nick,
Le 31/05/2018 à 15:00, Nick Clifton a écrit :
> Hi Romain,
>
>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21458
>>
>> What's the status of this bug?
>
> It was sidelined. :-( Sorry.
No problem :-)
>
>> Some users reported a runtime issue with the linux kernel boot for Cortex-M
>> target: https://bugs.buildroot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11051
>
> I think that part of the problem is that the kernel people are
> asking for the (adr affecting part of the) patch to be reverted,
> but they have not suggested a way to address the issue raised in
> the PR. (From comment #6 onwards).
Yes, but it's a very difficult topic.
Did you have some feedback from ARM ?
>
> One thing that did occur to me is that the adr handling code
> in the assembler does not check to see if the bottom bit has
> already been set, so maybe this is part of the problem. Are
> you able to test out an assembler patch and see if it makes
> a difference ?
I'm not able to test this patch but I'm adding Christophe Priouzeau in Cc.
He use a stm32f429 system.
Christophe, it would be great if you can test this patch with your toolchain
based on Binutils 2.29.
>
> diff --git a/gas/config/tc-arm.c b/gas/config/tc-arm.c
> index dbaf1627bb..c682ceabd3 100644
> --- a/gas/config/tc-arm.c
> +++ b/gas/config/tc-arm.c
> @@ -8423,7 +8423,7 @@ do_adr (void)
> && inst.reloc.exp.X_add_symbol != NULL
> && S_IS_DEFINED (inst.reloc.exp.X_add_symbol)
> && THUMB_IS_FUNC (inst.reloc.exp.X_add_symbol))
> - inst.reloc.exp.X_add_number += 1;
> + inst.reloc.exp.X_add_number |= 1;
> }
>
> /* This is a pseudo-op of the form "adrl rd, label" to be converted
>
> If that does not help, then I think that the only thing to do is
> to add a command line option to control the behaviour of the ADR
> pseudo-op and a configure time switch to set the default for this
> option.
Ok, let's see the test result.
Thanks for your time,
Romain
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
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