[PATCH v2] bootm: update os_entry from uimage

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Sep 23 00:40:25 EDT 2013


On 20:17 Sun 22 Sep     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:20:29PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > if not uimage set 0 by default
> > 
> > today we do not see the issue as the kernel entry point is the same as the
> > load_addr but on other binary its not necessary the case
> > 
> > as today we ignore the entry point set in the uimage and just assume it's the
> > same as the load_addr
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > ---
> > @@ -80,6 +83,13 @@ static int bootm_open_os_uimage(struct image_data *data)
> >  			uimage_close(data->os);
> >  			return -ENOMEM;
> >  		}
> > +
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	if (update_ep && data->os_entry == UIMAGE_SOME_ADDRESS) {
> > +		data->os_entry = data->os->header.ih_ep;
> > +		if (data->os_address != UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS)
> > +			data->os_entry -= data->os_address;
> >  	}
> 
> This is wrong. struct image_data stores the entry to the image relative
> to the image start, not as absolute address.
> 
> The architecture support already handles this correctly:
> 
> ./arch/nios2/lib/bootm.c:43:    kernel = (void *)(idata->os_address + idata->os_entry);
> ./arch/ppc/lib/ppclinux.c:76:   kernel = (void *)(data->os_address + data->os_entry);
> ./arch/arm/lib/bootm.c:58:      kernel = data->os_res->start + data->os_entry;
> ./arch/blackfin/lib/blackfin_linux.c:48:        appl = (void*)(idata->os_address + idata->os_entry);
> 
> What's missing is that we have to set data->os_entry to the correct
> offset taken from the uImage.
> 
> Sascha
> 
> From 789bd923f6dd7b9de53f0df61ee749aaf53db83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:51:53 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] bootm: handle image entry point correctly
> 
> The uImage format stores the entry point to the image in the ih_ep
> field. Honor this field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/bootm.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/common/bootm.c b/common/bootm.c
> index 1987a09..4e62006 100644
> --- a/common/bootm.c
> +++ b/common/bootm.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ static int bootm_open_os_uimage(struct image_data *data)
>  	if (data->os_address == UIMAGE_SOME_ADDRESS)
>  		data->os_address = data->os->header.ih_load;
>  
> +	data->os_entry = data->os->header.ih_ep - data->os->header.ih_load;
> +
>  	if (data->os_address != UIMAGE_INVALID_ADDRESS) {
>  		data->os_res = uimage_load_to_sdram(data->os, 0,
>  				data->os_address);

this does not work on INVALID_ADDRESS as this time teh ih_load is as
0xffffffff and the ih_ep is relative not absolute

Best Regards,
J.
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