[PATCH v2 11/29] ARM: head.S: use PC relative insn sequence to calculate PHYS_OFFSET

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Sun Sep 3 05:07:39 PDT 2017


Replace the open coded arithmetic with a simple adr_l/sub pair. This
ensures these quantities are invariant under runtime relocation.

Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/head.S | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
index f607e290ef4b..62c961849035 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
@@ -106,10 +106,8 @@ ENTRY(stext)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
-	adr	r3, 2f
-	ldmia	r3, {r4, r8}
-	sub	r4, r3, r4			@ (PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET)
-	add	r8, r8, r4			@ PHYS_OFFSET
+	adr_l	r8, _text			@ __pa(_text)
+	sub	r8, r8, #TEXT_OFFSET		@ PHYS_OFFSET
 #else
 	ldr	r8, =PLAT_PHYS_OFFSET		@ always constant in this case
 #endif
@@ -161,10 +159,6 @@ ENTRY(stext)
 1:	b	__enable_mmu
 ENDPROC(stext)
 	.ltorg
-#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
-2:	.long	.
-	.long	PAGE_OFFSET
-#endif
 
 /*
  * Setup the initial page tables.  We only setup the barest
-- 
2.11.0




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