There are a couple of problems with the code to patch
unrelocated BLX instructions:
1. The calculation of the PC needs to take into account
the alignment of the instruction. The Thumb BLX
uses alignDown(PC, 4) for the source address.
2. The calculation of the PC bias is hard-coded to 4
which works for Thumb, but when there is a BLX the
branch will be in Arm state so it needs an 8 byte
PC bias.
No asssembler generates an unrelocated BLX instruction
so these problems do not affect real world programs.
However we should still fix them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104905
See http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-April/140549.html
For the record, GNU ld changed to 64k max page size in 2014
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=7572ca8989ead4c3425a1500bc241eaaeffa2c89
"[RFC] ld/ARM: Increase maximum page size to 64kB"
Android driver forced 4k page size in AArch64 (D55029) and ARM (D77746).
A binary linked with max-page-size=4096 does not run on a system with a
higher page size configured. There are some systems out there that do
this and it leads to the binary getting `Killed!` by the kernel.
In the non-linker-script cases, when linked with -z noseparate-code
(default), the max-page-size increase should not cause any size
difference. There may be some VMA usage differences, though.
Reviewed By: psmith, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77330
The new behavior matches GNU objdump. A pair of angle brackets makes tests slightly easier.
`.foo:` is not unique and thus cannot be used in a `CHECK-LABEL:` directive.
Without `-LABEL`, the CHECK line can match the `Disassembly of section`
line and causes the next `CHECK-NEXT:` to fail.
```
Disassembly of section .foo:
0000000000001634 .foo:
```
Bdragon: <> has metalinguistic connotation. it just "feels right"
Reviewed By: rupprecht
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75713
The --fix-cortex-a8 option implements a linker workaround for the
coretex-a8 erratum 657417. A summary of the erratum conditions is:
- A 32-bit Thumb-2 branch instruction B.w, Bcc.w, BL, BLX spans two
4KiB regions.
- The destination of the branch is to the first 4KiB region.
- The instruction before the branch is a 32-bit Thumb-2 non-branch
instruction.
The linker fix is to redirect the branch to a patch not in the first
4KiB region. The patch forwards the branch on to its target.
The cortex-a8, is an old CPU, with the first implementation of this
workaround in ld.bfd appearing in 2009. The cortex-a8 has been used in
early Android Phones and there are some critical applications that still
need to run on a cortex-a8 that have the erratum. The patch is applied
roughly 10 times on LLD and 20 on Clang when they are built with
--fix-cortex-a8 on an Arm system.
The formal erratum description is avaliable in the ARM Core Cortex-A8
(AT400/AT401) Errata Notice document. This is available from Arm on
request but it seems to be findable via a web search.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67284
llvm-svn: 371965
Peter Smith