On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 02:54:15PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 03:29:56PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > + code_resource.start = __pa_symbol(_text);
> > + code_resource.end = __pa_symbol(_etext)-1;
> > + rodata_resource.start = __pa_symbol(__start_rodata);
> > + rodata_resource.end = __pa_symbol(__end_rodata)-1;
> > + data_resource.start = __pa_symbol(_sdata);
> > + data_resource.end = __pa_symbol(_edata)-1;
> > + bss_resource.start = __pa_symbol(__bss_start);
> > + bss_resource.end = __pa_symbol(__bss_stop)-1;
>
> This falls short on 32-bit ARM. The old code was:
>
> - kernel_code.start = virt_to_phys(_text);
> - kernel_code.end = virt_to_phys(__init_begin - 1);
> - kernel_data.start = virt_to_phys(_sdata);
> - kernel_data.end = virt_to_phys(_end - 1);
>
> If I look at one of my kernels:
>
> c0008000 T _text
> c0b5b000 R __end_rodata
> ... exception and unwind tables live here ...
> c0c00000 T __init_begin
> c0e00000 D _sdata
> c0e68870 D _edata
> c0e68870 B __bss_start
> c0e995d4 B __bss_stop
> c0e995d4 B _end
>
> So the original covers _text..__init_begin-1 which includes the
> exception and unwind tables. Your version above omits these, which
> leaves them exposed.
Right, this needs to be fixed. Is there any reason the exception and unwind
tables cannot be placed between _sdata and _edata?
It seems to me that they were left outside for purely historical reasons.
Commit ee951c630c5c ("ARM: 7568/1: Sort exception table at compile time")
moved the exception tables out of .data section before _sdata existed.
Commit 14c4a533e099 ("ARM: 8583/1: mm: fix location of _etext") moved
_etext before the unwind tables and didn't bother to put them into data or
rodata areas.
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
