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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Lucas Stach <dev@lynxeye.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lds: align RO_DATA_SECTION members
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:05:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191209090504.GA32178@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191209080029.3905-1-dev@lynxeye.de>

Hi Lucas.

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 09:00:29AM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> When using the RO_DATA_SECTION macro, all the individual components
> are put into the rodata section. As they now end up in the same
> section there is no alignment enforced between them anymore. This
> leads to unaligned start pointers when any of the components have a
> unaligned size. Enforce some alignment between them.

In the kernel we have:
#define ALIGN_FUNCTION()  . = ALIGN(8)
#define STRUCT_ALIGNMENT 32
#define STRUCT_ALIGN() . = ALIGN(STRUCT_ALIGNMENT)

Could we use something similar here?

	Sam

> 
> Fixes: c5d38e920101 (lds: Add and use RO_DATA_SECTION macro)
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <dev@lynxeye.de>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h
> index b6ca8eb2be27..113392d567fa 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>  #endif
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_INITCALLS			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__barebox_initcalls_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(.initcall.0))			\
>  	KEEP(*(.initcall.1))			\
> @@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
>  	__barebox_initcalls_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_EXITCALLS			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__barebox_exitcalls_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(.exitcall.0))			\
>  	KEEP(*(.exitcall.1))			\
> @@ -47,37 +49,44 @@
>  	__barebox_exitcalls_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_CMDS				\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__barebox_cmd_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(SORT_BY_NAME(.barebox_cmd*)))	\
>  	__barebox_cmd_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_RATP_CMDS			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__barebox_ratp_cmd_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(SORT_BY_NAME(.barebox_ratp_cmd*)))	\
>  	__barebox_ratp_cmd_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_SYMS				\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__usymtab_start = .;			\
>  	KEEP(*(__usymtab))			\
>  	__usymtab_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_MAGICVARS			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__barebox_magicvar_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(SORT_BY_NAME(.barebox_magicvar*)))	\
>  	__barebox_magicvar_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_CLK_TABLE			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__clk_of_table_start = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(.__clk_of_table));		\
>  	KEEP(*(.__clk_of_table_end));		\
>  	__clk_of_table_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_DTB				\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__dtb_start = .;			\
>  	KEEP(*(.dtb.rodata.*));			\
>  	__dtb_end = .;
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_IMD				\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_start))		\
>  	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_1*))		\
>  	*(.barebox_imd_0*)			\
> @@ -85,6 +94,7 @@
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
>  #define BAREBOX_PCI_FIXUP			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__start_pci_fixups_early = .;		\
>  	KEEP(*(.pci_fixup_early))		\
>  	__end_pci_fixups_early = .;		\
> @@ -99,6 +109,7 @@
>  #endif
>  
>  #define BAREBOX_RSA_KEYS			\
> +	. = ALIGN(8);				\
>  	__rsa_keys_start = .;			\
>  	KEEP(*(.rsa_keys.rodata.*));		\
>  	__rsa_keys_end = .;			\
> -- 
> 2.23.0
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-09  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-09  8:00 [PATCH] lds: align RO_DATA_SECTION members Lucas Stach
2019-12-09  9:05 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2019-12-09 10:02   ` Lucas Stach
2019-12-26  9:11 ` Sam Ravnborg

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