On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:33:10PM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
2012/11/26 Zhi-zhou Zhang zhizhou.zh@gmail.com:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 09:30:54PM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
2012/11/24 Zhi-zhou Zhang zhizhou.zh@gmail.com:
If bal is 8 bytes aligned, the _gp will not be 8 bytes aligned. then the following ld insntrustion generates a Adel exception. So here make _gp be always aligned in 8 bytes.
which toolchain do you use? Actually _gp is aligned to 16 bytes in the linker script. Thus the instruction "ld gp, 0(ra)" and the address loaded into gp is always aligned to 8 bytes. This works at least with ELDK-5.2.1 and a self-built gcc-4.7.2.
Thanks for review. I have do a simple test by modify this snip as following: .align 3 //nop nop bal 1f nop .dword _gp 1: ld gp, 0(ra) Qemu give me a Adel exception: (qemu) info registers pc=0xffffffffbfc00688 HI=0x0000000000000000 LO=0x0000000000000000 ds 0098 0000000000000000 0 GPR00: r0 0000000000000000 at 000000001000009f v0 0000000000000000 v1 0000000000000000 GPR04: a0 0000000000000000 a1 0000000000000000 a2 0000000000000000 a3 0000000000000000 GPR08: t0 0000000000000000 t1 0000000000000000 t2 0000000000000000 t3 0000000000000000 GPR12: t4 0000000000000002 t5 0000000000000000 t6 0000000000000000 t7 0000000000000000 GPR16: s0 0000000000000000 s1 0000000000000000 s2 0000000000000000 s3 0000000000000000 GPR20: s4 0000000000000000 s5 0000000000000000 s6 0000000000000000 s7 0000000000000000 GPR24: t8 0000000000000000 t9 0000000000000000 k0 0000000000000000 k1 0000000000000000 GPR28: gp 0000000000000000 sp 0000000000000000 s8 0000000000000000 ra ffffffffbfc00544 CP0 Status 0x10400082 Cause 0x00000410 EPC 0xffffffffbfc00550 Config0 0x80004482 Config1 0xfea3519b LLAddr 0x0000000000000000
We can also see the arrange with objdump: ffffffffbfc00538: 00000000 nop ffffffffbfc0053c: 04110004 bal ffffffffbfc00550 ffffffffbfc00540: 00000000 nop ffffffffbfc00544: 00000000 nop ffffffffbfc00548: bfc36ed0 cache 0x3,28368(s8) ffffffffbfc0054c: ffffffff sd ra,-1(ra) ffffffffbfc00550: dffc0000 ld gp,0(ra)
It shows that although _gp is aligned to 8 bytes. but it's not in the address of 0(ra).
I did some experiments too and now I understand your problem. If you put additional instructions before "bal 1f", the compiler puts a nop between bal and _gp to fill the gap in order to keep _gp aligned. But then the link address of bal that will be stored in the gp register points to the additional nop and not to _gp as it was intended. I can't reproduce this with MIPS32. Maybe this is a compiler bug.
Dear Daniel, I'm sorry for my poor Engilsh. I didn't describe the problem exactly. I think tlink script only set the value of _gp. and .dword do decide where _gp be linked. Because the compiler always align dword to 8 bytes, the gap comes and was filled with zero. The MIPS's ISA set 4 bytes per instruction. so MIPS's link address is always aligned to 4 bytes. MIPS32 won't occur this problem. But if the link address is not aligned to 8 bytes, MIPS64 goes wrong. We have half chance encountering it. Thanks.
I pushed a modified version of your patch to git://git.denx.de/u-boot-mips.git [1]. Could you check if this is okay for you?
[1] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-mips.git;a=commitdiff;h=4bb639edce852c8e...
-- Best regards, Daniel