sp uninitialized in imx6_cpu_lowlevel_init

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Jan 16 12:27:28 PST 2015


Hello,

when building imx_v7_defconfig and then looking at
images/start_imx6_gk802.pbl (several more are affected, too), I get:

$ objdump -d images/start_imx6_gk802.pbl
00000000 <start_imx6_gk802>:
   0:   e28f9001        add     r9, pc, #1
   4:   e12fff19        bx      r9
   8:   f000 f822       bl      50 <start_imx6_gk802+0x50>
...
  50:   f000 f850       bl      f4 <__start_imx6_gk802>
...
  f4:   f000 f80c       bl      110 <imx6_cpu_lowlevel_init>
...
 110:   b508            push    {r3, lr}

That is the sp register is used here without being initialized. I guess
this didn't break up to now because when barebox is jumped into, sp
was already used by the boot rom and still points into SRAM.

Still I think this is worth to be fixed. I think this means that
imx6_cpu_lowlevel_init must be marked __naked and lr must be saved into
a register that is preserved by the functions called by
imx6_cpu_lowlevel_init.

Sounds reasonable?

Best regards
Uwe

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