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authorTom Rini <[email protected]>2026-02-05 17:41:58 -0600
committerTom Rini <[email protected]>2026-02-09 09:33:20 -0600
commit89965b5eb597d50d052ee79b531f17495cff6f29 (patch)
treeaa7b2cfa660b0b10b7a8fa28771b4b50542d8768 /doc/api
parentb270d01a9a62a0b1e520210fffd12354ac995c92 (diff)
arm: spl: Ensure 8 byte alignment of appended DTB without separate BSS
Historically, when we have an appended device tree and also our resulting binary will contain the BSS section, we have ensured that everything will be where it's expected to be by declaring that the BSS is overlayed with a symbol matches the end of the port of the ELF binary that is objcopy'd to the binary we concatenate with. This in turn means that the logic to generate a "pad" file, which is the size found in the __bss_size symbol, will be correct and then we can concatenate the device tree and it will begin at __bss_size at run time. With commit 5ffc1dcc26d3 ("arm: Remove rel.dyn from SPL linker scripts") we removed this overlay as part of trying to ensure that we met both the requirements of the device tree to be 8 byte aligned as well as that our logic to generate the -pad file would match what ended up in the resulting binary. While it was correct to remove an unused section it did not solve ultimately solve the problem for all cases. To really fix the problem, we need to do two things. First, our final section prior to _image_binary_end must be 8 byte aligned (for the case of having a separate BSS and so our appended DTB exists at this location). This cannot be '.binman_sym_table' as it may be empty, and in turn the ELF type would be NOBITS and so not copied with objcopy. The __u_boot_list section will never be empty, so it is our final section, and ends with a '. = ALIGN(8)' statement. Second, as this is the end of our copied data it is safe to declare that the BSS starts here, so use the OVERLAY keyword to place the BSS here. Fixes: 5ffc1dcc26d3 ("arm: Remove rel.dyn from SPL linker scripts") Reported-by: Brian Sune <[email protected]> Reported-by: Phil Phil Sutter <[email protected]> Tested-by: Brian Sune <[email protected]> Tested-by: Phil Sutter <[email protected]> Tested-by: Greg Malysa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
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