[PATCH v5 2/8] arm64: add macros for common adrp usages

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Wed Mar 18 10:54:29 PDT 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The adrp instruction is mostly used in combination with either
> an add, a ldr or a str instruction with the low bits of the
> referenced symbol in the 12-bit immediate of the followup
> instruction.
> 
> Introduce the macros adr_l, ldr_l and str_l that encapsulate
> these common patterns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 750bac4e637e..f1804d4803fb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -159,4 +159,33 @@ lr	.req	x30		// link register
>  	orr	\rd, \lbits, \hbits, lsl #32
>  	.endm
>  
> +/*
> + * Pseudo-ops for PC-relative adr/ldr/str <reg>, <symbol> where
> + * <symbol> is within the range +/- 4 GB of the PC.
> + */

It would be nice to point out that tmp for adr_l and ldr_l is only
necesssary when loading a value into the SP.

Otherwise this looks fine.

Mark.

> +	.macro	adr_l, dst, sym, tmp=
> +	.ifb	\tmp
> +	adrp	\dst, \sym
> +	add	\dst, \dst, :lo12:\sym
> +	.else
> +	adrp	\tmp, \sym
> +	add	\dst, \tmp, :lo12:\sym
> +	.endif
> +	.endm
> +
> +	.macro	ldr_l, dst, sym, tmp=
> +	.ifb	\tmp
> +	adrp	\dst, \sym
> +	ldr	\dst, [\dst, :lo12:\sym]
> +	.else
> +	adrp	\tmp, \sym
> +	ldr	\dst, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]
> +	.endif
> +	.endm
> +
> +	.macro	str_l, src, sym, tmp
> +	adrp	\tmp, \sym
> +	str	\src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]
> +	.endm
> +
>  #endif	/* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H */
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
> 



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