From: Dave.Martin@arm.com (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 14/19] ARM: set --be8 when linking modules
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:38:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130828163852.GB3842@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377639509-22778-15-git-send-email-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:38:24PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> To avoid having to make every text section swap the instruction order
> of all instructions, make sure modules are built also built with --be8
> (as is the current kernel final link).
>
> If we do not do this, we would end up having to swap all instructions
> when loading a module, instead of just the instructions that we are
> applying ELF relocations to.
Someone on one of the previous threads asked about whether we need
module vermagic for BE8.
I'm a bit hazy on whether this is needed. The interesting scenario
would be if someone tried to load a BE32 module into a BE8 kernel
or vice versa.
Currently the kernel does not seem to check ELF endianness at all
either for modules or userspace binaries -- they load get loaded/
fixed up/executed just is if they were native endianness.
So BE8 doesn't add any new brokenness here. Fixing all that stuff
falls outside the scope of this series.
Any thoughts?
For this patch though:
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cheers
---Dave
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
> ---
> arch/arm/Makefile | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index 6fd2cea..2c659f9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ LDFLAGS :=
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=-p --no-undefined -X
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8),y)
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
> +LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8
> endif
>
> OBJCOPYFLAGS :=-O binary -R .comment -S
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-28 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-27 21:38 3.11-rc7 big-endian support Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 01/19] ARM: fix ARCH_IXP4xx usage of ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 02/19] ARM: asm: Add ARM_BE8() assembly helper Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 03/19] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:54 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 04/19] ARM: set BE8 if LE in head code Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 10:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-08-28 16:42 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 05/19] ARM: pl01x debug code endian fix Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 17:03 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 06/19] ARM: twd: data " Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 07/19] ARM: smp_scu: data endian fixes Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 08/19] highbank: enable big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 15:21 ` Rob Herring
2013-08-30 18:50 ` Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 09/19] mvebu: support running big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 10/19] vexpress: add big endian support Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 11/19] ARM: alignment: correctly decode instructions in BE8 mode Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:44 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 12/19] ARM: traps: use <asm/opcodes.h> to get correct instruction order Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:22 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 13/19] ARM: module: correctly relocate instructions in BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:46 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 14/19] ARM: set --be8 when linking modules Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:38 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2013-08-30 18:55 ` Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 15/19] ARM: hardware: fix endian-ness in <hardware/coresight.h> Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 16/19] ARM: net: fix arm instruction endian-ness in bpf_jit_32.c Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:47 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 17/19] ARM: Correct BUG() assembly to ensure it is endian-agnostic Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:48 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 18/19] ARM: kdgb: use <asm/opcodes.h> for data to be assembled as intruction Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 16:50 ` Dave Martin
2013-08-27 21:38 ` [PATCH 19/19] ARM: atomic64: fix endian-ness in atomic.h Ben Dooks
2013-08-27 22:02 ` 3.11-rc7 big-endian support Ben Dooks
2013-08-29 9:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-08-29 10:23 ` Ben Dooks
2013-08-29 10:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-08-29 15:53 ` Victor Kamensky
2013-08-29 17:17 ` Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` re-send patch series due to mta issues Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 01/19] ARM: fix ARCH_IXP4xx usage of ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 02/19] ARM: asm: Add ARM_BE8() assembly helper Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 03/19] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 04/19] ARM: set BE8 if LE in head code Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 05/19] ARM: pl01x debug code endian fix Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 06/19] ARM: twd: data " Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 07/19] ARM: smp_scu: data endian fixes Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 08/19] highbank: enable big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 09/19] mvebu: support running big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 10/19] vexpress: add big endian support Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 11/19] ARM: alignment: correctly decode instructions in BE8 mode Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 19:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-08-30 18:47 ` Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 12/19] ARM: traps: use <asm/opcodes.h> to get correct instruction order Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 13/19] ARM: module: correctly relocate instructions in BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 14/19] ARM: set --be8 when linking modules Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 15/19] ARM: hardware: fix endian-ness in <hardware/coresight.h> Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 16/19] ARM: net: fix arm instruction endian-ness in bpf_jit_32.c Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 17/19] ARM: Correct BUG() assembly to ensure it is endian-agnostic Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 18/19] ARM: kdgb: use <asm/opcodes.h> for data to be assembled as intruction Ben Dooks
2013-08-28 11:45 ` [PATCH 19/19] ARM: atomic64: fix endian-ness in atomic.h Ben Dooks
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