linux/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Russell King 6760b10960 ARM: fix vmlinux.lds.S discarding sections
We are seeing linker errors caused by sections being discarded, despite
the linker script trying to keep them.  The result is (eg):

`.exit.text' referenced in section `.alt.smp.init' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
`.exit.text' referenced in section `.alt.smp.init' of net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o

This is the relevent part of the linker script (reformatted to make it
clearer):
| SECTIONS
| {
| /*
| * unwind exit sections must be discarded before the rest of the
| * unwind sections get included.
| */
| /DISCARD/ : {
| *(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
| *(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
| }
| ...
| .exit.text : {
| *(.exit.text)
| *(.memexit.text)
| }
| ...
| /DISCARD/ : {
| *(.exit.text)
| *(.memexit.text)
| *(.exit.data)
| *(.memexit.data)
| *(.memexit.rodata)
| *(.exitcall.exit)
| *(.discard)
| *(.discard.*)
| }
| }

Now, this is what the linker manual says about discarded output sections:

|    The special output section name `/DISCARD/' may be used to discard
| input sections.  Any input sections which are assigned to an output
| section named `/DISCARD/' are not included in the output file.

No questions, no exceptions. It doesn't say "unless they are listed
before the /DISCARD/ section." Now, this is what asn-generic/vmlinux.lds.S
says:
| /*
|  * Default discarded sections.
|  *
|  * Some archs want to discard exit text/data at runtime rather than
|  * link time due to cross-section references such as alt instructions,
|  * bug table, eh_frame, etc. DISCARDS must be the last of output
|  * section definitions so that such archs put those in earlier section
|  * definitions.
|  */

And guess what - the list _always_ includes .exit.text etc.

Now, what's actually happening is that the linker is reading the script,
and it finds the first /DISCARD/ output section at the beginning of the
script. It continues reading the script, and finds the 'DISCARD' macro
at the end, which having been postprocessed results in another
/DISCARD/ output section. As the linker already contains the earlier
/DISCARD/ output section, it adds it to that existing section, so it
effectively is placed at the start. This can be seen by using the -M
option to ld:

| Linker script and memory map
|
|                 0xc037c080                jiffies = jiffies_64
|
| /DISCARD/
|  *(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
|  *(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
|  *(.exit.text)
|  *(.memexit.text)
|  *(.exit.data)
|  *(.memexit.data)
|  *(.memexit.rodata)
|  *(.exitcall.exit)
|  *(.discard)
|  *(.discard.*)
|
|                 0xc0008000                . = 0xc0008000
|
| .head.text      0xc0008000      0x1d0
|                 0xc0008000                _text = .
|  *(.head.text)
|  .head.text     0xc0008000      0x1d0 arch/arm/kernel/head.o
|                 0xc0008000                stext
|
| .text           0xc0008200   0x2d78d0
|                 0xc0008200                _stext = .
|                 0xc0008200                __exception_text_start = .
|  *(.exception.text)
|  .exception.text
| ...

As you can see, all the discarded sections are grouped together - and
as a result of it being the first output section, they all appear before
any other section.

The result is that not only is the unwind information discarded (as
intended), but also the .exit.text, despite us wanting to have the
.exit.text preserved.

We can't move the unwind information elsewhere, because it'll then be
included even when we do actually discard the .exit.text (and similar)
sections.

So, work around this by avoiding the generic DISCARDS macro, and instead
conditionalize the sections to be discarded ourselves.  This avoids the
ambiguity in how the linker assigns input sections to output sections,
making our script less dependent on undocumented linker behaviour.

Reported-by: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-09-20 23:42:31 +01:00

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ArmAsm

/* ld script to make ARM Linux kernel
* taken from the i386 version by Russell King
* Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
*/
#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/memory.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#define PROC_INFO \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__proc_info_begin) = .; \
*(.proc.info.init) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__proc_info_end) = .;
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
#define ARM_CPU_DISCARD(x)
#define ARM_CPU_KEEP(x) x
#else
#define ARM_CPU_DISCARD(x) x
#define ARM_CPU_KEEP(x)
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP) && !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK)
#define ARM_EXIT_KEEP(x) x
#define ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(x)
#else
#define ARM_EXIT_KEEP(x)
#define ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(x) x
#endif
OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
ENTRY(stext)
#ifndef __ARMEB__
jiffies = jiffies_64;
#else
jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
#endif
SECTIONS
{
/*
* XXX: The linker does not define how output sections are
* assigned to input sections when there are multiple statements
* matching the same input section name. There is no documented
* order of matching.
*
* unwind exit sections must be discarded before the rest of the
* unwind sections get included.
*/
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.ARM.exidx.exit.text)
*(.ARM.extab.exit.text)
ARM_CPU_DISCARD(*(.ARM.exidx.cpuexit.text))
ARM_CPU_DISCARD(*(.ARM.extab.cpuexit.text))
ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(EXIT_TEXT)
ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(EXIT_DATA)
EXIT_CALL
#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
*(.ARM.exidx.devexit.text)
*(.ARM.extab.devexit.text)
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
*(.fixup)
*(__ex_table)
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP
*(.alt.smp.init)
#endif
*(.discard)
*(.discard.*)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
. = XIP_VIRT_ADDR(CONFIG_XIP_PHYS_ADDR);
#else
. = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
#endif
.head.text : {
_text = .;
HEAD_TEXT
}
.text : { /* Real text segment */
_stext = .; /* Text and read-only data */
__exception_text_start = .;
*(.exception.text)
__exception_text_end = .;
IRQENTRY_TEXT
TEXT_TEXT
SCHED_TEXT
LOCK_TEXT
KPROBES_TEXT
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
*(.fixup)
#endif
*(.gnu.warning)
*(.glue_7)
*(.glue_7t)
. = ALIGN(4);
*(.got) /* Global offset table */
ARM_CPU_KEEP(PROC_INFO)
}
RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
/*
* Stack unwinding tables
*/
. = ALIGN(8);
.ARM.unwind_idx : {
__start_unwind_idx = .;
*(.ARM.exidx*)
__stop_unwind_idx = .;
}
.ARM.unwind_tab : {
__start_unwind_tab = .;
*(.ARM.extab*)
__stop_unwind_tab = .;
}
#endif
_etext = .; /* End of text and rodata section */
#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_begin = .;
#endif
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
.exit.text : {
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_TEXT)
}
.init.proc.info : {
ARM_CPU_DISCARD(PROC_INFO)
}
.init.arch.info : {
__arch_info_begin = .;
*(.arch.info.init)
__arch_info_end = .;
}
.init.tagtable : {
__tagtable_begin = .;
*(.taglist.init)
__tagtable_end = .;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP
.init.smpalt : {
__smpalt_begin = .;
*(.alt.smp.init)
__smpalt_end = .;
}
#endif
.init.pv_table : {
__pv_table_begin = .;
*(.pv_table)
__pv_table_end = .;
}
.init.data : {
#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
INIT_DATA
#endif
INIT_SETUP(16)
INIT_CALLS
CON_INITCALL
SECURITY_INITCALL
INIT_RAM_FS
}
#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
.exit.data : {
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
}
#endif
PERCPU_SECTION(32)
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
__data_loc = ALIGN(4); /* location in binary */
. = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
#else
__init_end = .;
. = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);
__data_loc = .;
#endif
.data : AT(__data_loc) {
_data = .; /* address in memory */
_sdata = .;
/*
* first, the init task union, aligned
* to an 8192 byte boundary.
*/
INIT_TASK_DATA(THREAD_SIZE)
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_begin = .;
INIT_DATA
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__init_end = .;
#endif
NOSAVE_DATA
CACHELINE_ALIGNED_DATA(32)
READ_MOSTLY_DATA(32)
/*
* The exception fixup table (might need resorting at runtime)
*/
. = ALIGN(32);
__start___ex_table = .;
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
*(__ex_table)
#endif
__stop___ex_table = .;
/*
* and the usual data section
*/
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS
_edata = .;
}
_edata_loc = __data_loc + SIZEOF(.data);
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
/*
* We align everything to a page boundary so we can
* free it after init has commenced and TCM contents have
* been copied to its destination.
*/
.tcm_start : {
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__tcm_start = .;
__itcm_start = .;
}
/*
* Link these to the ITCM RAM
* Put VMA to the TCM address and LMA to the common RAM
* and we'll upload the contents from RAM to TCM and free
* the used RAM after that.
*/
.text_itcm ITCM_OFFSET : AT(__itcm_start)
{
__sitcm_text = .;
*(.tcm.text)
*(.tcm.rodata)
. = ALIGN(4);
__eitcm_text = .;
}
/*
* Reset the dot pointer, this is needed to create the
* relative __dtcm_start below (to be used as extern in code).
*/
. = ADDR(.tcm_start) + SIZEOF(.tcm_start) + SIZEOF(.text_itcm);
.dtcm_start : {
__dtcm_start = .;
}
/* TODO: add remainder of ITCM as well, that can be used for data! */
.data_dtcm DTCM_OFFSET : AT(__dtcm_start)
{
. = ALIGN(4);
__sdtcm_data = .;
*(.tcm.data)
. = ALIGN(4);
__edtcm_data = .;
}
/* Reset the dot pointer or the linker gets confused */
. = ADDR(.dtcm_start) + SIZEOF(.data_dtcm);
/* End marker for freeing TCM copy in linked object */
.tcm_end : AT(ADDR(.dtcm_start) + SIZEOF(.data_dtcm)){
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
__tcm_end = .;
}
#endif
NOTES
BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0)
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
.comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
}
/*
* These must never be empty
* If you have to comment these two assert statements out, your
* binutils is too old (for other reasons as well)
*/
ASSERT((__proc_info_end - __proc_info_begin), "missing CPU support")
ASSERT((__arch_info_end - __arch_info_begin), "no machine record defined")