[PATCH] ARM: Exynos : Fix build error with thumb2

Santosh Shukla santosh.shukla at linaro.org
Wed Jun 4 01:07:04 PDT 2014


On 2 June 2014 15:40, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:23:45PM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>> From: santosh shukla <santosh.shukla at linaro.org>
>>
>> Add non-global symbol .LLl2x0_regs_phys to avoid build break in thumb2 mode.
>>
>> IIUC, arm assembler fail to load value of "global" variable
>> l2xo_regs_phys for thum2 mode and wrapping it in non-global symbol like
>> .Ll2x0_regs_phys solves the build break issue.
>>
>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S: Assembler messages:
>> arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S:57: Error: invalid immediate for address
>> calculation (value = 0x00000004)
>>
>> fix inspired from [1]
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/31/235
>>
>> Signed-off-by: santosh shukla <santosh.shukla at linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
>

Thanks.

Hi Kukjin, if this patch ok with you then can you pick it up.

> The binutils folks insist that this is not a bug in gas.  (I disagreed, but
> it's a grey area.)  This is the established pattern for working round this
> issue -- looks fine to me.
>
> Cheers
> ---Dave
>
>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S |    4 +++-
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S
>> index a2613e9..dc8c6b6 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S
>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ ENTRY(exynos_cpu_resume)
>>       ldr     r1, =CPU_CORTEX_A9
>>       cmp     r0, r1
>>       bne     skip_l2_resume
>> -     adr     r0, l2x0_regs_phys
>> +     adr     r0, .Ll2x0_regs_phys
>>       ldr     r0, [r0]
>>       cmp     r0, #0
>>       beq     skip_l2_resume
>> @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ skip_l2_resume:
>>       b       cpu_resume
>>  ENDPROC(exynos_cpu_resume)
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CACHE_L2X0
>> +
>> +.Ll2x0_regs_phys:
>>       .globl l2x0_regs_phys
>>  l2x0_regs_phys:
>>       .long   0
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>>
>>
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