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| author | Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@linaro.org> | 2013-11-08 19:29:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Taras Kondratiuk <taras@ti.com> | 2014-04-01 15:48:27 +0200 |
| commit | 41b5368f31f86a1c2be2bb16a1cf18d23f1223d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 19bb9fd519dba304852611c94aa2aedb288309ba /arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c | |
| parent | ARM: kprobes-test: use <asm/opcodes.h> for Thumb instruction building (diff) | |
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ARM: kprobes-test: Workaround GAS .align bug
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c index 6e60a349aed9..379639998d5a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-test.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ * @ start of inline data... * .ascii "mov r0, r7" @ text title for test case * .byte 0 - * .align 2 + * .align 2, 0 * * @ TEST_ARG_REG * .byte ARG_TYPE_REG |