When kernel's binary becomes large enough (32M and more) errors
may occur during the final linkage stage. It happens because
the build system uses short relocations for ARC by default.
This problem may be easily resolved by passing -mlong-calls
option to GCC to use long absolute jumps (j) instead of short
relative branchs (b).
But there are fragments of pure assembler code exist which use
branchs in inappropriate places and cause a linkage error because
of relocations overflow.
First of these fragments is .fixup insertion in futex.h and
unaligned.c. It inserts a code in the separate section (.fixup)
with branch instruction. It leads to the linkage error when
kernel becomes large.
Second of these fragments is calling scheduler's functions
(common kernel code) from entry.S of ARC's code. When kernel's
binary becomes large it may lead to the linkage error because
scheduler may occur far enough from ARC's code in the final
binary.
Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
If a load or store is the last instruction in a zero-overhead-loop, and
it's misaligned, the loop would execute only once.
This fixes that problem.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
With ECR now part of pt_regs
* No need to propagate from lowest asm handlers as arg
* No need to save it in tsk->thread.cause_code
* Avoid bit chopping to access the bit-fields
More code consolidation, cleanup
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ARC700 doesn't natively support unaligned access, but can be emulated
-Unaligned Access Exception
-Disassembly at the Fault address to find the exact insn (long/short)
Also per Arnd's comment, we runtime control it using 2 sysctl knobs:
* SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW: Runtime enable/disble
* SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN: Warn on each emulation attempt
Originally contributed by Tim Yao <tim.yao@amlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Tim Yao <tim.yao@amlogic.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Yuriy Kolerov