commit 47bd65ef057f ("arm: make __rel_dyn_{start, end} compiler-generated") were moving the __rel_dyn_start/end on c generated variables that were injected in their own sections. The reason was that we needed relative relocations for position independent code and linker bugs back then prevented us from doing so [0].
However, the linker documentation pages states that symbols that are defined within a section definition will create a relocatable type with the value being a fixed offset from the base of a section [1].
[0] binutils commit 6b3b0ab89663 ("Make linker assigned symbol dynamic only for shared object") [1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Expression-Section.html
Suggested-by: Sam Edwards CFSworks@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org Reviewed-by: Sam Edwards CFSworks@gmail.com Tested-by: Sam Edwards CFSworks@gmail.com # Binary output identical --- arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds | 16 +++------------- arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds | 14 +++----------- arch/arm/lib/sections.c | 2 -- arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot.lds | 14 +++----------- 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds index eccb116d3cfa..e737de761a9d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds @@ -129,20 +129,10 @@ SECTIONS *(.__image_copy_end) }
- . = ALIGN(8); - - .rel_dyn_start : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_start) - } - - .rela.dyn : { + .rela.dyn ALIGN(8) : { + __rel_dyn_start = .; *(.rela*) - } - - .rel_dyn_end : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_end) + __rel_dyn_end = .; }
_end = .; diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds index 37f4cd27d79a..b1065ec8063d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds @@ -166,18 +166,10 @@ SECTIONS *(.__image_copy_end) }
- .rel_dyn_start : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_start) - } - - .rel.dyn : { + .rel.dyn ALIGN(4) : { + __rel_dyn_start = .; *(.rel*) - } - - .rel_dyn_end : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_end) + __rel_dyn_end = .; }
.end : diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/sections.c b/arch/arm/lib/sections.c index ddfde52163fc..1ee3dd3667ba 100644 --- a/arch/arm/lib/sections.c +++ b/arch/arm/lib/sections.c @@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
char __image_copy_start[0] __section(".__image_copy_start"); char __image_copy_end[0] __section(".__image_copy_end"); -char __rel_dyn_start[0] __section(".__rel_dyn_start"); -char __rel_dyn_end[0] __section(".__rel_dyn_end"); char __secure_start[0] __section(".__secure_start"); char __secure_end[0] __section(".__secure_end"); char __secure_stack_start[0] __section(".__secure_stack_start"); diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot.lds b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot.lds index 11b6e7278a9c..16245fd4ac2f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot.lds +++ b/arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot.lds @@ -71,18 +71,10 @@ SECTIONS *(.__image_copy_end) }
- .rel_dyn_start : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_start) - } - - .rel.dyn : { + .rel.dyn ALIGN(8) : { + __rel_dyn_start = .; *(.rel*) - } - - .rel_dyn_end : - { - *(.__rel_dyn_end) + __rel_dyn_end = .; }
.end : -- 2.37.2