There are a number of data sections that are repeated across
all the linker scripts for various architecture. In practice these
don't always get updated and we have had problems with bit-rot.
Consolidate these to make maintenance easier.
x86 linker scripts now follow the same naming convention and we
get rid of a linker-epilog.h that wasn't necessary and whose purpose
has been lost to the mists of time. If applications want to define their
own sections they should be allowed to. Linker scripts for x86 do not
end with .h any more, they are not C header files even though we use
C's preprocessor.
Issue: ZEP-688
Change-Id: I893eb4619969695c1f980efd7c2ec9fa5dad136d
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
With this patch we introduce unified kernel support for NIOS II.
Not all test cases have been ported, but the following command
currently succeeds with 43/43 passing test cases:
$ sanitycheck --arch=nios2 -xKERNEL_TYPE=unified \
--tag=unified_capable
Issue: ZEP-934
Change-Id: Id8effa0369a6a22c4d0a789fa2a8e108af0e0786
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Binutils ld has an annoying misfeature (apparently a regression from a
few years ago) that alignment directives (and alignment specifiers on
symbols) apply only to the runtime addresses and not, apparently, to
the load address region specified with the "AT>" syntax. The net
result is that by default the LMA output ends up too small for the
addresses generated in RAM. See here for some details:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-06/msg00246.htmlhttps://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-01/msg00350.html
The required workaround/fix is that AFAICT any section which can have
inherit a separate VMA vs. LMA from a previous section must specify an
"ALIGN_WITH_INPUT" attribute. Otherwise the sections will get out of
sync and the XIP data will be wrong at runtime.
No, I don't know why this isn't the default behavior.
A further complexity is that this feature only works as advertised
when the section is declared with the "AT> region" syntax after the
block and not "AT(address)" in the header. If you use the header
syntax (with or without ALIGN_WITH_INPUT), ld appears to DOUBLE-apply
padding and the LMA ends up to big. This is almost certainly a
binutils bug, but it's trivial to work around (and the working syntax
is actually cleaner) so we adjust the usage here.
Note finally that this patch includes an effective reversion of commit
d82e9dd9 ("x86: HACK force alignment for _k_task_list section"), which
was an earlier workaround for what seems to be the same issue.
Jira: ZEP-955
Change-Id: I2accd92901cb61fb546658b87d6752c1cd14de3a
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
We now allow use of -mgpopt=global and -mgpopt=data. The 'global'
option is now the default instead of compiler-default local, expanding
global pointer usage to all small data in the system.
For systems where all RAM is less than 64K, the 'data' option may be
appropriate.
Some fixes had to be made to the system in order to get around some
issues:
* prep_c.c no longer uses fake linker variables to figure out the size
of data or BSS, as these gave the linker fits as it tried to compute
relative addresses to them.
* _k_task_ptr_idle is create by sysgen and placed in a special section.
Any small data in a special section needs to be declared extern
with __attribute__((section)) else the compiler will assume it's in
.sdata.
* same situation with extern references to k_pipe_t (fixed pipe_priv
test)
For legacy applications being ported to Nios II which do things that
freak out global pointer calculation, it can be disabled entirely.
Change-Id: I5eb86ee8aefb8e2fac49c5cdd104ee19cea23f6f
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
needs to be 0x8000 after .sdata and .sbss sections since
register offsets are 16-bit signed values.
Change-Id: Ia7486d32af81e54a6ebac6be7ec308dfdeafe79e
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Supports Internal Interrupt Controller only for now; EIC
supoort tracked in ZEP-258.
Change-Id: I2d9c5180e61c06b377fce4bda8a59042b68d58f2
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
The KEEP() is only necessary for the exception entry point
as it sits at a magic memory address and isn't referenced by
other code.
Change-Id: I8443e8aa23059b65eaf9c5a1cf3f9b14b04737d5
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
This isn't directly referenced by other code in the binary,
it just sits at a magic memory address. Make sure gc-sections
doesn't throw it away.
Change-Id: I1c00a163dbf2eb4866ebadc7f1d70bcc6845b8d1
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
These aren't valid in all circumstances; the reset vector in most cases
needs to be in ROM.
Change-Id: I83df8762eecc53c99af92f3b0972dfbafac457fb
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
We will require 6 variables to be defined by SOC-specific
linker script; these values in turn can be pulled from
defines in layout.h.
To help position code correctly we define two new ELF sections
for this arch, 'reset' and 'exceptions'.
Change-Id: Idffbd53895945b7d0ec0aac281e5bf7c85b4b2c2
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Got lost in the .gitignore when these files had .cmd
extension.
Change-Id: I8a8d51014b621026b739525f3f9a3e8a20cb5ad0
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Andrew Boie