On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:38:57AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > .bss __rel_start (OVERLAY) was used to optimize RAM size used by > barebox. Since .bss and __rel_start overlap, we should clear bss only > after __rel_start was used. Following patch changed initialization > sequence to clear .bss before __rel_start: > 1e5aef61fc6a444 ("MIPS: reloc: init bss and cpu") > > This make relocation buffer unusable and broke relocation with different > symptoms reported by Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@xxxxxxxxx>: > * iomem output has no information on sdram regions, so memtest is unusable; > * pc = 0xa081232c, relocation does not work, barebox is located with 8M offset > from start of RAM. The board has 256M and relocation routine > should move barebox code much higher; > * pc = 0xa081232c, so barebox code works from KSEG1 not from KSEG0 as MMU=y option implies. > > There is a choice of moving .bss clear sequence after __rel_start or > remove this optimization. Since the use of this optimization is minimal > and danger to trap in to similar issue is still high, i prefer to remove > this optimization. > > As result of this change, we need to fix calculation of relocation are > size: > relocate_code() calculates relocation area size as a sum (barebox_image_size + > bss_len). barebox_image_size and bss_len are calculated as (__image_end - > __image_start) and (__bss_stop - __bss_start) respectively. This doesn't take > into account relocation data placed between __image_end and __bss_start. > However relocation preserves BSS position relative to image start, as if > relocation data is still there. This causes RAM overflow during BSS > initialization in main_entry(). This problem may be hidden due to the alignment > of the `relocaddr`. > > Reported-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@xxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: 1e5aef61fc6a444 ("MIPS: reloc: init bss and cpu") > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/mips/lib/barebox.lds.S | 2 +- > arch/mips/lib/reloc.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Applied, thanks Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox