By default if no fill symbol is given to .align directive in a code
section it fills gap with NOPs. If previous fragment is not
instruction-aligned, additional pre-alignment is done by zero bytes
before NOPs. These zero bytes are marked as data by special symbol $d in
symbol table. Unfortunately GAS assumes that there is only code in the
code section so it "puts back" code symbol $a at the end of this
pre-alignment. So if there is some data after alignment it will be
interpreted as code and will be swapped back to LE for BE8 system during
a final linking.
If explicit fill value is given to .align, the NOP-padding code is
skipped and symbol table does not get messed-up.
So the workaround for this issue:
Use explicit fill value if data should be aligned in the code section.
Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@linaro.org>
When compiling kprobes-test-thumb.c an error like below may occur:
/tmp/ccKcuJcG.s:19179: Error: offset out of range
This is caused by the compiler underestimating the size of the inline
assembler instructions containing ".space 0x1000" and failing to spill
the literal pool in time to prevent the generation of PC relative load
instruction with invalid offsets.
The fix implemented by this patch is to replace a single large .space
directive by a number of 4 byte .space's. This requires splitting the
macros which generate test cases for branch instructions into two forms:
one with, and one without support for inserting extra code between
branch and target.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <jon.medhurst@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On ARM we have to simulate/emulate CPU instructions in order to
singlestep them. This patch adds a framework which can be used to
construct test cases for different instruction forms. It is described in
detail in the in-source comments of kprobes-test.c
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Taras Kondratiuk