[PATCHv4 2/7] arm64: Switch to ldr for loading the stub vectors
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Oct 28 02:51:45 PDT 2014
Hi Laura,
On 27/10/14 20:12, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The hyp stub vectors are currently loaded using adr. This
> instruction has a +/- 1MB range for the loading address. If
> the alignment for sections is changed the address may be more
> than 1MB away, resulting in reclocation errors. Switch to using
relocation
> adrp for getting the address to ensure we aren't affected by the
> location of the __hyp_stub_vectors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
Apart from the above typo and the subject line (which Ard already
mentioned), this looks good.
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> v4: Commit text tweaks
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 0a6e4f9..10f5cc0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ CPU_LE( movk x0, #0x30d0, lsl #16 ) // Clear EE and E0E on LE systems
> msr vttbr_el2, xzr
>
> /* Hypervisor stub */
> - adr x0, __hyp_stub_vectors
> + adrp x0, __hyp_stub_vectors
> + add x0, x0, #:lo12:__hyp_stub_vectors
> msr vbar_el2, x0
>
> /* spsr */
>
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