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From: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas@biessmann.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Andreas Bießmann" <andreas@biessmann.de>,
	"Haavard Skinnemoen" <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>,
	"Hans-Christian Egtvedt" <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] avr32: fix out-of-range jump in large kernels
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:31:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1382610664-1195-2-git-send-email-andreas@biessmann.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382610664-1195-1-git-send-email-andreas@biessmann.de>

This patch fixes following error (for big kernels):

---8<---
arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.o: In function `no_tag_table':
(.init.text+0x44): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against symbol `panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o
arch/avr32/kernel/built-in.o: In function `bad_return':
(.ex.text+0x236): relocation truncated to fit: R_AVR32_22H_PCREL against symbol `panic' defined in .text.unlikely section in kernel/built-in.o
--->8---

It comes up when the kernel increases and 'panic()' is too far away to fit in
the +/- 2MiB range. Which in turn issues from the 21-bit displacement in
'br{cond4}' mnemonic which is one of the two ways to do jumps (rjmp has just
10-bit displacement and therefore a way smaller range). This fact was stated
before in 8d29b7b9f81d6b83d869ff054e6c189d6da73f1f.
One solution to solve this is to add a local storage for the symbol address
and just load the $pc with that value.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.de>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
---
 arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S    |    5 ++++-
 arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S b/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
index d36d865..2ffc298 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
+++ b/arch/avr32/boot/u-boot/head.S
@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ init_sr:
 	.long	0x007f0000	/* Supervisor mode, everything masked */
 stack_addr:
 	.long	init_thread_union
+panic_addr:
+	.long	panic
 
 no_tag_table:
 	sub	r12, pc, (. - 2f)
-	bral	panic
+	/* branch to panic() which can be far away with that construct */
+	lddpc	pc, panic_addr
 2:	.asciz	"Boot loader didn't provide correct magic number\n"
diff --git a/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S b/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
index 9899d3c..7301f48 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
+++ b/arch/avr32/kernel/entry-avr32b.S
@@ -401,9 +401,10 @@ handle_critical:
 	/* We should never get here... */
 bad_return:
 	sub	r12, pc, (. - 1f)
-	bral	panic
+	lddpc	pc, 2f
 	.align	2
 1:	.asciz	"Return from critical exception!"
+2:	.long	panic
 
 	.align	1
 do_bus_error_write:
-- 
1.7.10.4


      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-24 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 10:31 [PATCH 1/2] avr32: setup crt for early panic() Andreas Bießmann
2013-10-24 10:31 ` Andreas Bießmann [this message]

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