[PATCH 0/8] Implement assembly cortex-M PACBTI functionality

Victor Do Nascimento victor.donascimento@arm.com
Tue Jul 5 13:58:10 GMT 2022


This patch series modifies hand-written assembly files for Arm targets,
conditionally enabling branch target identification as well as address
return signature and verification based on Armv8.1-M Pointer
Authentication [1] using ACLE feature test macros at compile-time [2].

Function prologues/epilogues reflect gcc compilation behaviour when
gcc invoked with the following flags:

"-march=armv8.1-m.main -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf+bti -mthumb
-mfloat-abi=soft -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -O2 -S"

Regression tested on arm-none-eabi with and without MVE extension and
for Newlib and Newlib-nano.

[1]
<https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/armv8-1-m-pointer-authentication-and-branch-target-identification-extension>
[2] <https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101028/0012/5--Feature-test-macros>

Victor Do Nascimento (8):
  newlib: libc: define M-profile PACBTI-enablement macros
  newlib: libc: strcmp M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: strlen M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: memchr M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: memcpy M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: setjmp/longjmp M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: aeabi_memmove M-profile PACBTI-enablement
  newlib: libc: aeabi_memset M-profile PACBTI-enablement

 .../libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memmove-thumb2.S   | 42 ++++++++++-
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memset-thumb2.S | 45 +++++++++++-
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S              | 49 +++++++++++--
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/memcpy-armv7m.S       | 73 +++++++++++++++++--
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/pacbti.h              | 58 +++++++++++++++
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/setjmp.S              | 32 +++++++-
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp-arm-tiny.S     |  7 +-
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp-armv7.S        | 45 +++++++++---
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp-armv7m.S       | 36 +++++++--
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strlen-armv7.S        | 52 ++++++++++++-
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strlen-stub.c         |  9 +++
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strlen-thumb2-Os.S    | 13 +++-
 12 files changed, 417 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 newlib/libc/machine/arm/pacbti.h

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