As of v2026.01, no platforms contain any rel.dyn sections in their xPL
phase images. Their inclusion in linker scripts initially was an
oversight as part of taking the full U-Boot linker scripts and modifying
them down. Then in commit 8b0ebe054bb3 ("arm: Update linker scripts to
ensure appended device tree is aligned") these sections were used to
force correct alignment for the device tree. This however, lead to a
different problem.
That problem is that when we do not have a separate BSS section in SPL
we instead would overlay the BSS with the rel.dyn section, in the common
linker script case. This in turn lead to creating an incorrectly sized
BSS "pad" file sometimes (depending on arbitrary changes within the rest
of the binary itself). This in turn lead to the dtb being in the wrong
location in the binary and not found at run time.
This commit fixes a few things:
- Remove the rel.dyn section from all ARM SPL linker scripts.
- In turn, this moves the dtb alignment statement in to another section.
- For ast2600 which uses CONFIG_POSITION_INDEPENDENT we need to keep the
symbols however.
Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Chia-Wei, Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
With commit 0535e46d55d7 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version
v1.7.2-35-g52f07dcca47c") it is now a fatal error to U-Boot if our
device tree is not 8-byte aligned. In commit 85f586035d75 ("ARM: OMAP2+:
Pad SPL binary to 8-byte alignment before DTB") Beleswar Padhi explains
that we must have ALIGN(x) statements inside of a section to ensure that
padding is included and not simply that the linker address counter is
incremented. To that end, this patch:
- Expands some linker sections to be more readable when adding a second
statement to the section.
- Aligns the final section before _end (for U-Boot) or
_image_binary_end or __bss_end (for xPL phases) by 8-bytes by adding
'. = ALIGN(8);' to the final section before the symbol.
- Ensure that we do have alignment by adding an ASSERT so that when not
aligned we fail to link (and explain why).
- Remove now-spurious '. = ALIGN(x);' statements that were intended to
provide the above alignments.
Tested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com> # Zynq
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
[trini: Also update arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds as Ilas requested]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Use the new symbol to refer to any 'SPL' build, including TPL and VPL Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Drop all duplicate newlines. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
commit 6e2228fb052b ("Merge patch series "Clean up arm linker scripts")
was cleaning up linker scripts for armv7 and v8 but was leaving
_end and __secure_stack_start/end.
commit d0b5d9da5de2 ("arm: make _end compiler-generated")
was moving _end to be compiler generated. _end is defined as c variable
in its own section to force the compiler emit relative a reference.
However, defining those in the linker script will do the same thing
since [0].
So let's remove the special sections from the linker scripts, the
variable definitions from sections.c and define them as a symbols.
It's worth noting that _image_binary_end symbol is now redundant and
can be removed in the future.
- SPL
The .end section has been removed from the new binary
[ 5] .end
PROGBITS 00000000fffdf488 000000000002f488 0
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 1
[0000000000000003]: WRITE, ALLOC
$~ bloat-o-meter kria_old/spl/u-boot-spl krina_new/spl/u-boot-spl
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/0 (0)
Function old new delta
Total: Before=115980, After=115980, chg +0.00%
$~ readelf -sW kria_old/u-boot kria_new/u-boot | grep -w _end
12047: 000000000813a0f0 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 _end
12047: 000000000813a118 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 _end
$~ readelf -sW kria_old/spl/u-boot-spl kria_new/spl/u-boot-spl | grep -w _end
1605: 00000000fffdf488 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 5 _end
1603: 00000000fffdf498 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 4 _end
$~ readelf -sW old/u-boot new/u-boot | grep -w _end
8847: 0000000000103710 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 _end
8847: 0000000000103738 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 _end
$~ readelf -sW old_v7/u-boot new_v7/u-boot | grep -w _end
10638: 000da824 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 10 _end
10637: 000da84c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 10 _end
- For both QEMU instances
$~ bloat-o-meter old/u-boot new/u-boot
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 20/0 (20)
Function old new delta
version_string 50 70 +20
Total: Before=656915, After=656935, chg +0.00%
[0] binutils commit 6b3b0ab89663 ("Make linker assigned symbol dynamic only for shared object")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
As part of bringing the master branch back in to next, we need to allow for all of these changes to exist here. Reported-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
When bringing in the series 'arm: dts: am62-beagleplay: Fix Beagleplay Ethernet"' I failed to notice that b4 noticed it was based on next and so took that as the base commit and merged that part of next to master. This reverts commit c8ffd1356d42223cbb8c86280a083cc3c93e6426, reversing changes made to 2ee6f3a5f7550de3599faef9704e166e5dcace35. Reported-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Remove <common.h> from this board vendor directory and when needed add missing include files directly. Acked-by: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Replace instances of http://www.ti.com with https://www.ti.com Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
This option does not exist, so the Makefile rule does nothing. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>