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From: Dave.Martin@arm.com (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] ARM: assembler: introduce adr_l, ldr_l and str_l macros
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 12:30:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804113018.GH7147@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_JVX3erz6N64EGfu38TDi6PHsQVGY=nkfu7kF-8Hq=6Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 01:10:55PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 4 August 2016 at 13:08, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

> > or, for ldr_l:
> >
> > 0:      add     \dst, pc, #-8
> > 1:      add     \dst, \dst, #-4
> > 2:      ldr     [\dst, #0]
> >
> > .reloc  0b, R_ARM_ALU_PC_G0_NC, \sym
> > .reloc  1b, R_ARM_ALU_PC_G1_NC, \sym
> > .reloc  2b, R_ARM_LDR_PC_G2, \sym
> >
> > ... should produce precisely the same result at the .o stage.
> >
> 
> Yes, but how is LD going to perform the arithmetic involved in

What arithmetic?

> handling these relocations? That's is the more interesting part, and
> that is not implemented either in binutils < 2.18

You mean .reloc is not implemented < 2.18?

[...]

Cheers
---Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-04 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-03 15:38 [PATCH 0/8] ARM: clean up PC-relative arithmetic Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] ARM: assembler: introduce adr_l, ldr_l and str_l macros Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 16:49   ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04  7:40     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04  9:44       ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 10:34         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 11:22           ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 12:16             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-04 12:55               ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 13:58               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04  7:43     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 18:09   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-04  7:40     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04  9:38       ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 10:12         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 11:08           ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 11:10             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 11:30               ` Dave Martin [this message]
2016-08-04 11:34                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 13:31                   ` Dave Martin
2016-08-04 13:46                     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 15:38                       ` Dave Martin
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 2/8] ARM: head-common.S: use PC-relative insn sequence for __proc_info Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 3/8] ARM: head-common.S: use PC-relative insn sequence for __turn_mmu_on Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 4/8] ARM: head.S: use PC-relative insn sequence for secondary_data Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 18:06   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 5/8] ARM: head: use PC-relative insn sequence for __smp_alt Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] ARM: sleep.S: use PC-relative insn sequence for sleep_save_sp/mpidr_hash Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: head.S: use PC-relative insn sequences for __fixup_pv_table Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 15:38 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: head.S: use PC relative insn sequence to calculate PHYS_OFFSET Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-03 18:17 ` [PATCH 0/8] ARM: clean up PC-relative arithmetic Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-04  7:17   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04  9:49     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-04  9:54       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 10:03         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-04 10:11           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-08-04 10:14             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-08-03 18:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-04 14:11   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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