On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> I'm trying to boot the Linux kernel on RaspberryPi Zero via GRUB2,
> which in turn is executed by U-Boot as an UEFI binary.
>
> However, I'm facing data abort issues in efi_get_memory_map()
> that seem to be related to some ldrd instructions generated by the
> compiler.
>
> To simplify the investigation, I temporarily gave up on GRUB2 and
> started directly the Linux kernel via U-Boot bootefi command.
> The result is an immediate crash at PC 0x92c8:
>
> data abort
> pc : [<1c6b12c8>] lr : [<1c6b1558>]
> reloc pc : [<fe76a2c8>] lr : [<fe76a558>]
> sp : 1db43b30 ip : 00000000 fp : 1db43cc0
> r10: 20494249 r9 : ffffffff r8 : 00000000
> r7 : 1db43b3c r6 : 00000000 r5 : 1db43bfa r4 : 1db43bb0
> r3 : 1db43b9c r2 : 00000028 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 1df4f828
> Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32
> Code: e3a02028 e3a01000 e527100c e5832000 (e1c420d4)
> UEFI image [0x1c6a8000:0x1cb2ffff] pc=0x92c8 '/boot\zImage'
> Resetting CPU ...
>
> The related disassembled section shows the *ldrd* instruction
> in the context of the following statement:
> *map->map_size = *map->desc_size * 32;
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c:90
> *map->desc_size = sizeof(*m);
> 92ac: e5913008 ldr r3, [r1, #8]
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c:84
> {
> 92b0: e1a04001 mov r4, r1
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c:85
> efi_memory_desc_t *m = NULL;
> 92b4: e28d7018 add r7, sp, #24
> linux/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c:90
> *map->desc_size = sizeof(*m);
> 92b8: e3a02028 mov r2, #40 ; 0x28
> 92c4: e5832000 str r2, [r3]
> linux/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c:91
> *map->map_size = *map->desc_size * 32;
> 92c8: e1c420d4 ldrd r2, [r4, #4]
At this point, r4 is 16-byte aligned, so that's a misaligned LDRD.
Looking at version 2.8of the UEFI spec, in section 2.3.5 "AArch32
Platforms", it states that SCTLR should be configured:
| A=0, U=1 on ARMv6 and ARMv7
... which IIUC should permit a misaligned LDRD. Is U-Boot definitely
configuring SCTLR that way? Or has it perhaps set A=1, U=0?
Thanks,
Mark.
