[PATCH 1/3] ARM: implement ENTRY_FUNCTION_WITHSTACK

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Wed Dec 1 23:42:54 PST 2021


The point of ENTRY_FUNCTION is to write the entry point in C. Due to
lack of __naked on ARM64, the start of the entry point will have prologue
using stack and it's not possible to set up the stack safely without
branching into non-inline assembly[0]. On ARM32, where we got __naked, we
have the potential for a different problem: If BootROM sets up stack for
us and we branch to a naked function, which doesn't set up its own
stack, compiler may decide to spill local variables overwriting
instructions it had already run[1].

For code reuse between ARM and ARM64, it would be nice to use the same
entry point structure for both. Currently, the only way is to write it
in non-inline assembly using the ENTRY_PROC macro.

This introduces another way: the ARM64 barebox header has enough space
for 8 instructions of which 5 are unused (2 instructions compiler prologue
+ 1 instruction to jump after the header), we could place a stack setup
routine there to avoid having to write a separate assembly file.
For ARM32, we just call arm_setup_stack and branch out directly after,
freeing board porters of the burden of getting it right.

Add a new ENTRY_FUNCTION_WITHSTACK to realize this.

[0]: 76bced6fe146 ("ARM: document arm_setup_stack() pitfalls"),
[1]: b51b15ba1738 ("RISC-V: board-dt-2nd: move low level init into nonnaked function")

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h |  6 +---
 arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h      | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/lib/pbl.lds.S                  |  1 +
 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h
index 187d12c9fc8d..3e8da0da7c0a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h
@@ -44,14 +44,10 @@ static inline void __barebox_arm_head(void)
 		"1: b 1b\n"
 #endif
 #else
+		/* 5 instructions added by ENTRY_FUNCTION */
 		/* two instruction long function prologue */
 		/* only use if stack is initialized! */
 		"b 2f\n"
-		"nop\n"
-		"nop\n"
-		"nop\n"
-		"nop\n"
-		"nop\n"
 #endif
 		".asciz \"barebox\"\n"
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_32
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
index cfb5943f33d6..d70de6d5e6e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
@@ -161,6 +161,51 @@ static inline unsigned long arm_mem_barebox_image(unsigned long membase,
 	}
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_64
+
+#define ____emit_entry_prologue(instr, ...) do { \
+	static __attribute__ ((unused,section(".text_head_prologue"))) \
+		const u32 __entry_prologue[] = {(instr), ##__VA_ARGS__}; \
+	barrier_data(__entry_prologue); \
+} while(0)
+
+#define __emit_entry_prologue(instr1, instr2, instr3, instr4, instr5) \
+	____emit_entry_prologue(instr1, instr2, instr3, instr4, instr5)
+
+#define __ARM_SETUP_STACK(stack_top) \
+	__emit_entry_prologue(0x14000002	/* b pc+0x8 */,		\
+			      stack_top		/* 32-bit literal */,	\
+			      0x18ffffe9	/* ldr w9, top */,	\
+			      0xb4000049	/* cbz x9, pc+0x8 */,	\
+			      0x9100013f	/* mov sp, x9 */)
+#else
+#define __ARM_SETUP_STACK(stack_top) if (stack_top) arm_setup_stack(stack_top)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Unlike ENTRY_FUNCTION, this can be used to setup stack for a C entry
+ * point on both ARM32 and ARM64. ENTRY_FUNCTION on ARM64 can only be used
+ * if preceding boot stage has initialized the stack pointer.
+ *
+ * Stack top of 0 means stack is already set up. In that case, the follow-up
+ * code block will not be inlined and may spill to stack right away.
+ */
+#define ENTRY_FUNCTION_WITHSTACK(name, stack_top, arg0, arg1, arg2)	\
+	void name(ulong r0, ulong r1, ulong r2);			\
+									\
+	static void __##name(ulong, ulong, ulong);			\
+									\
+	void NAKED __section(.text_head_entry_##name)	name		\
+				(ulong r0, ulong r1, ulong r2)		\
+		{							\
+			__barebox_arm_head();				\
+			__ARM_SETUP_STACK(stack_top);			\
+			__##name(r0, r1, r2);				\
+		}							\
+		static void noinline __##name				\
+			(ulong arg0, ulong arg1, ulong arg2)
+
+
 #define ENTRY_FUNCTION(name, arg0, arg1, arg2)				\
 	void name(ulong r0, ulong r1, ulong r2);			\
 									\
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/pbl.lds.S b/arch/arm/lib/pbl.lds.S
index 0a0fb8b5ac13..e77b3220fcb0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/pbl.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/pbl.lds.S
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	.text      :
 	{
 		_stext = .;
+		*(.text_head_prologue*)
 		*(.text_head_entry*)
 		__bare_init_start = .;
 		*(.text_bare_init*)
-- 
2.30.2




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