[binutils-gdb/binutils-2_44-branch] ld: fix alignment issue for ARM thumb long branch stub using PureCode section
Torbjorn Svensson
azoff@sourceware.org
Thu Jan 23 09:37:40 GMT 2025
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=068aa239e8da7765b0965faa67fe9030b0bf6fbe
commit 068aa239e8da7765b0965faa67fe9030b0bf6fbe
Author: Torbjörn SVENSSON <torbjorn.svensson@foss.st.com>
Date: Tue Dec 17 18:56:10 2024 +0100
ld: fix alignment issue for ARM thumb long branch stub using PureCode section
When pure-code option is activated. The linker creates for M-profile architecures
a 2-bytes branch instruction. This causes the section alignment to be set to 2-byte
alignment instead of 4-byte alignment. This is a problem for long branch stub
without pure-code section as it contains a 32-bit address as data, which is expected
to be 4-byte aligned. Hence creating a long branch stub for PureCode section followed
by a long branch stub will result in a misalignment for the 32-bit address.
An easy fix is to add a nop instruction after the branch to keep the section alignment
to 4 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Torbjörn SVENSSON <torbjorn.svensson@foss.st.com>
Co-authored-by: Guillaume VACHERIAS <guillaume.vacherias@st.com>
(cherry picked from commit 014a7c0fa36ecc41918e5793052dd3ae8372efe5)
Diff:
---
bfd/elf32-arm.c | 2 ++
ld/testsuite/ld-arm/arm-elf.exp | 3 +++
.../farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.d | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++
.../farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.s | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode.d | 2 +-
5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-arm.c b/bfd/elf32-arm.c
index ba60634997e..d66e7324b5a 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-arm.c
+++ b/bfd/elf32-arm.c
@@ -2630,6 +2630,8 @@ static const insn_sequence elf32_arm_stub_long_branch_thumb2_only_pure[] =
THUMB32_MOVW (0xf2400c00), /* mov.w ip, R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC */
THUMB32_MOVT (0xf2c00c00), /* movt ip, R_ARM_MOVT_ABS << 16 */
THUMB16_INSN (0x4760), /* bx ip */
+ THUMB16_INSN (0xbf00), /* nop */
+ /* The nop is added to ensure alignment of following stubs in the section. */
};
/* V4T Thumb -> Thumb long branch stub. Using the stack is not
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/arm-elf.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/arm-elf.exp
index be49d8fc6e5..cacd3bddfd4 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/arm-elf.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/arm-elf.exp
@@ -604,6 +604,9 @@ set armeabitests_nonacl {
{"Thumb2 purecode farcall" "-Ttext 0x1000 --section-start .foo=0x2001020" "" "" {farcall-thumb2-purecode.s}
{{objdump -d farcall-thumb2-purecode.d}}
"farcall-thumb2-purecode"}
+ {"Thumb2 purecode farcall consecutive veneer" "-Ttext 0x1000 --section-start .foo=0x2001020" "" "" {farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.s}
+ {{objdump -d farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.d}}
+ "farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer"}
{"Thumb-ARM farcall" "-Ttext 0x1c01010 --section-start .foo=0x2001014" "" "-W" {farcall-thumb-arm.s}
{{objdump -d farcall-thumb-arm.d}}
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.d b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b89da03eec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.d
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+.*: file format .*
+
+Disassembly of section .text:
+
+00001000 <bar>:
+ 1000: 4770 bx lr
+
+00001002 <baz>:
+ 1002: 4770 bx lr
+
+Disassembly of section .foo:
+
+02001020 <_start>:
+ 2001020: f000 f802 bl 2001028 <__bar_veneer>
+ 2001024: f000 f806 bl 2001034 <__baz_veneer>
+
+02001028 <__bar_veneer>:
+ 2001028: f241 0c01 movw ip, #4097 @ 0x1001
+ 200102c: f2c0 0c00 movt ip, #0
+ 2001030: 4760 bx ip
+ 2001032: bf00 nop
+
+02001034 <__baz_veneer>:
+ 2001034: f241 0c03 movw ip, #4099 @ 0x1003
+ 2001038: f2c0 0c00 movt ip, #0
+ 200103c: 4760 bx ip
+ 200103e: bf00 nop
+ \.\.\.
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.s b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee3d6c10b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode-consecutive-veneer.s
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+@ Test to ensure that a purecode Thumb2 call exceeding 4Mb generates a stub.
+
+ .global _start
+ .syntax unified
+ .arch armv7-m
+ .thumb
+ .thumb_func
+
+@ We will place the section .text at 0x1000.
+
+ .section .text, "0x20000006"
+ .type bar, %function
+ .type baz, %function
+bar:
+ bx lr
+
+baz:
+ bx lr
+
+@ We will place the section .foo at 0x02001014.
+
+ .section .foo, "0x20000006"
+_start:
+ bl bar
+ bl baz
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode.d b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode.d
index 451832678e9..00a070eed5b 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode.d
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/farcall-thumb2-purecode.d
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Disassembly of section .foo:
2001028: f241 0c01 movw ip, #4097 @ 0x1001
200102c: f2c0 0c00 movt ip, #0
2001030: 4760 bx ip
- 2001032: 0000 movs r0, r0
+ 2001032: bf00 nop
2001034: 0000 movs r0, r0
\.\.\.
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