Zephyr may be linked against third-party libraries which
were not part of the build. These may contain globals
which need to end up in a memory partition.
We can now specify the names of these libraries, as well
as a destination partition for their globals.
Some excessively long variables were renamed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
* K_APP_DMEM_SECTION/K_MEM_BMEM_SECTION macros now exist
to specifically define the name of the sections for data
and bss respectively.
* All boards now use the gen_app_partitions.py script, the
padding hacks for non-power-of-two arches didn't work right
in all cases. Linker scripts have been updated.
* The defined k_mem_partition is now completely initialized
at build time. The region data structures now only exist
to zero BSS.
Based on some work submitted by Adithya Baglody
<adithya.baglody@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
Move the definition of _image_ram_start at the beginning
of the RAMMABLE (SRAM) region, so it points to the actual
start of RAM linker sections.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
This commit standardizes and simplifies the way we enforce
linker section alignment, to comply with minimum alignment
requirement for MPU, if we build Zephyr with MPU support:
- it enforces alignment with the minimum MPU granularity at
the beginning and end of linker sections that require to
be protected by MPU,
- it enforces alignment with size if required by the MPU
architecture.
Particularly for the Application Memory section, the commit
simplifies how the proper alignment is enforced, removing
the need of calculating the alignment with a post-linker
python script. It also removes the need for an additional
section for padding.
For the Application Shared Memory section(s), the commit
enforces minimum alignment besides the requirement for
alignment with size (for the respective MPUs) and fixes
a bug where the app_data_align was erronously used in the
scipts for auto-generating the linker scripts.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
The size calculation for power of 2 MPUs were incorrect.
The calculation was not taking into account the amount of padding
the linker does when doing the required alignment. Hence the size
being calculated was completely incorrect.
With this patch the code now is optimized and the size of
partitions is now provided by the linker.
Signed-off-by: Adithya Baglody <adithya.nagaraj.baglody@intel.com>
This feature was failing on a default ARM core MPU. The linker
script that was getting created was not able to align the required
partitions at prebuilt time.
The old implementation relied on the prebuilt to finish then
extract the size information which was then used to align the regions.
This fails because the size of the alignment and the fill in the
linker needs to be available at prebuilt time else it cant manage
the final elf file generation. We cant have 2 different sizes of
prebuilt and final elf file.
This implementation will get the alignment requirements met at
prebuilt time.
Signed-off-by: Adithya Baglody <adithya.nagaraj.baglody@intel.com>
Andrew Boie