building and using modules on arm64 hikey board

[arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com (Arend van Spriel)]

On 01-06-16 11:01, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> 
> 
> On 31-5-2016 22:58, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 31 May 2016 at 22:24, Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
>>> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> This is likely caused by the fact that the Android AArch64 toolchain uses -fpic by default. Could you try adding -fno-pic to the CFLAGS?
>>>
>>> Actually Arend is using 4.4, and we need to pull your fix, Ard:
>>>
>>> commit 80a2d83376001f6a1993f2e925670ab0e4cdb76d
>>> Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>>> Date:   Tue Jan 5 10:18:52 2016 +0100
>>>
>>>     arm64: module: avoid undefined shift behavior in reloc_data()
>>>
>>
>> OK, that was going to be my next question to Arend, i.e., to check
>> whether he has all the recent fixes we did for the module loader.
>>
>> But I'd also like to understand how we ended up with PREL32
>> relocations in the first place, since those are quite unusual in
>> object code generated from generic C source code when using the
>> non-pic small model, which is normally GCC's default. Are there any
>> other code generation defaults for the Android  AArch64 GCC toolchain
>> that you are aware of?
> 
> For the module I noticed it uses command line parameter -mcmodel=large
> so I suppose that could be how I ended up with PREL32.
> 
> In arch/arm64/Makefile there is this:
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_843419), y)
> KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE    += -mcmodel=large
> endif
> 
> And that Kconfig item is indeed set.

Picked up two patches that Dmitry (big thanks!) backported from upstream:

https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/234335/
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/234336/

Did the trick for me.

Regards,
Arend

> Regards,
> Arend
> 
>>>>> On 30 mei 2016, at 12:21, Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I got myself an arm64 HiKey board from LeMaker and build an Android AOSP
>>>>> image for it (see [1]). For development I would like to use
>>>>> CONFIG_MODULES. However, when I try to insmod the build module I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> [  287.903653] module cfg80211: overflow in relocation type 261 val
>>>>> ffffffbffc006530
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking AArch64 ELF documentation [2], section 4.6.5, it has:
>>>>> code|name            |operation |overflow check   |
>>>>> 261 |R_AARCH64_PREL32|S + A - P |-2^31 <= X < 2^32|
>>>>>
>>>>> So basically the highest 32 bits should all be one and so ffffffbf is
>>>>> invalid. From what I could find searching internet it could be an issue
>>>>> with linker options so I build kernel and modules with V=1. Here the
>>>>> linker invocation for them:
>>>>>
>>>>> + aarch64-linux-android-ld -EL -p --no-undefined -X --build-id -o vmlinux \
>>>>> -T ./arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds arch/arm64/kernel/head.o
>>>>> init/built-in.o \
>>>>> --start-group usr/built-in.o arch/arm64/kernel/built-in.o
>>>>> arch/arm64/mm/built-in.o \
>>>>> arch/arm64/net/built-in.o arch/arm64/kvm/built-in.o
>>>>> arch/arm64/crypto/built-in.o \
>>>>> ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a kernel/built-in.o certs/built-in.o
>>>>> mm/built-in.o \
>>>>> fs/built-in.o ipc/built-in.o security/built-in.o crypto/built-in.o
>>>>> block/built-in.o \
>>>>> arch/arm64/lib/lib.a lib/lib.a arch/arm64/lib/built-in.o lib/built-in.o
>>>>> drivers/built-in.o \
>>>>> sound/built-in.o firmware/built-in.o net/built-in.o virt/built-in.o
>>>>> --end-group .tmp_kallsyms2.o
>>>>>
>>>>>  aarch64-linux-android-ld -EL -r  -T ./scripts/module-common.lds
>>>>> --build-id \
>>>>>  -o net/wireless/cfg80211.ko net/wireless/cfg80211.o
>>>>> net/wireless/cfg80211.mod.o
>>>>>
>>>>> Attached are vmlinux.lds and module-common.lds. I also tried taking
>>>>> upstream arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds in hikey-linaro tree. If someone
>>>>> can give a hint or educated guess at what to try it would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Arend
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://source.android.com/source/devices.html#building-kernel
>>>>> [2]
>>>>> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0056b/IHI0056B_aaelf64.pdf
>>>>> <module-common.lds>
>>>>> <vmlinux.lds>
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