On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:17 PM Rick Chen rickchen36@gmail.com wrote:
rick@andestech.com 於 2018年10月23日 週二 下午4:41寫道：
Hi Lukas,
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:10 AM Lukas Auer lukas.auer@aisec.fraunhofer.de wrote:
The machine trap-vector base address (mtvec) must be aligned on a 4-byte boundary. Add the necessary align directive to trap_entry.
I don't think this explicit alignment is needed because the instructions before trap_entry are already on 4-byte boundary.
Hi, Lukas and Bin
I think .aling 2 is necessary.
trap_entry is 4 -byte aligned now. But if someone add some codes ahead of trap_entry. trap_entry may still have chance to become NOT 4 byte aligned. With this prevention will be more safety than without it.
Linux Kernel have a patch to prevent from stvec not 4 byte aligned.
OK, then
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng bmeng.cn@gmail.com
commit 94f592f0e5b9c17a7505119a2d6c0f1f529ae93d Author: Zong Li zong@andestech.com Date: Thu Aug 2 23:21:56 2018 +0800
RISC-V: Add the directive for alignment of stvec's value The stvec's value must be 4 byte alignment by specification definition. These directives avoid to stvec be set the non-alignment value. Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong@andestech.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Regards, Bin