Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] tools/nolibc: m68k: Add relocation support

["Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>]

On 2026-02-04 21:45:36+0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Add support for handling relocations on m68k.
> 
> This also changes the branch to _start_c to be relative.
> This might break FLAT binaries so needs to be checked
> and probably wrapped in some #ifdef .. magic.

You are the expert here, so some more definitive answer to this question
would be nice :-)

> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
> ---
>  tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h
> index 2a4fbada5e79..e82ff48d3fb8 100644
> --- a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h
> +++ b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h
> @@ -10,8 +10,16 @@
>  #ifndef _NOLIBC_ARCH_M68K_H
>  #define _NOLIBC_ARCH_M68K_H
>  
> +#include "elf.h"
> +
> +#ifdef R_68K_RELATIVE
> +#define _NOLIBC_ARCH_HAS_RELOC
> +#define _NOLIBC_ARCH_ELF32
> +#endif
> +
>  #include "compiler.h"
>  #include "crt.h"
> +#include "reloc.h"
>  
>  #define _NOLIBC_SYSCALL_CLOBBERLIST "memory"
>  
> @@ -129,12 +137,29 @@
>  })
>  
>  #ifndef NOLIBC_NO_RUNTIME
> +
> +#ifdef NOLIBC_WANT_RELOC
> +static __inline__ int __relocate_rela(unsigned long base, _nolibc_elf_rela *entry)
> +{
> +	switch (_nolibc_elf_r_type(entry->r_info)) {
> +	case R_68K_RELATIVE:

It seems there is only ever a single relocation used per architecture.
So wouldn't it be possible to do something like this:

#define _NOLIBC_ARCH_HAS_RELOC
#define _NOLIBC_ARCH_RELA_RELOC R_68K_RELATIVE

This keeps the per-architecture code simpler and removes the ugly
'ifdef R_68K_RELATIVE'. The code will break if somebody actually tries
to build a static pie using old uapi headers, but then this has never
worked before anyways.

> +		__relocate_rela_relative(base, entry);
> +		break;
> +	default:
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +#endif /* NOLIBC_WANT_RELOC */
> +
>  void _start(void);
>  void __attribute__((weak, noreturn)) __nolibc_entrypoint __no_stack_protector _start(void)
>  {
>  	__asm__ volatile (
>  		"movel %sp, %sp@-\n"
> -		"jsr _start_c\n"
> +		"lea _start_c(%pc), %a0\n"
> +		"jsr (%a0)\n"
>  	);
>  	__nolibc_entrypoint_epilogue();
>  }
> -- 
> 2.51.0
>