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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Makefile | 4 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 2fec7073f687..f871f2e1dd7c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1379,6 +1379,37 @@ config THUMB2_KERNEL If unsure, say N. +config THUMB2_AVOID_R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 + bool "Work around buggy Thumb-2 short branch relocations in gas" + depends on THUMB2_KERNEL && MODULES + default y + help + Various binutils versions can resolve Thumb-2 branches to + locally-defined, preemptible global symbols as short-range "b.n" + branch instructions. + + This is a problem, because there's no guarantee the final + destination of the symbol, or any candidate locations for a + trampoline, are within range of the branch. For this reason, the + kernel does not support fixing up the R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 (102) + relocation in modules at all, and it makes little sense to add + support. + + The symptom is that the kernel fails with an "unsupported + relocation" error when loading some modules. + + Until fixed tools are available, passing + -fno-optimize-sibling-calls to gcc should prevent gcc generating + code which hits this problem, at the cost of a bit of extra runtime + stack usage in some cases. + + The problem is described in more detail at: + https://bugs.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+bug/725126 + + Only Thumb-2 kernels are affected. + + Unless you are sure your tools don't have this problem, say Y. + config ARM_ASM_UNIFIED bool diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile index da525bc96145..6d611f407ce6 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ AFLAGS_AUTOIT :=$(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mimplicit-it=always,-Wa$(comma)-mau AFLAGS_NOWARN :=$(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-warn-deprecated,-Wa$(comma)-W) CFLAGS_THUMB2 :=-mthumb $(AFLAGS_AUTOIT) $(AFLAGS_NOWARN) AFLAGS_THUMB2 :=$(CFLAGS_THUMB2) -Wa$(comma)-mthumb +# Work around buggy relocation from gas if requested: +ifeq ($(CONFIG_THUMB2_AVOID_R_ARM_THM_JUMP11),y) +CFLAGS_MODULE +=-fno-optimize-sibling-calls +endif endif # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x |