CC u-boot mailing list to make people aware of the discussion.

By the way, I also noticed that, the final linking command is using: '''-pie -Bstatic --no-dynamic-linker''' And there are self-relocating code in Start.S.

BUT it is not included when u-boot is not configured using "POSITION_INDEPENDENT" Which means, PIE feature cannot be used at load time. I am not sure about the code design and use cases, but '''LDFLAGS_u-boot += -pie''' may need to be guarded with '''CONFIG_POSITION_INDEPENDENT''' as well? Otherwise what is the purpose of pie without processing the dynamic relocations?

I tried to do that, and with some fixes in other places to change the checks for relocations, it could generate a binary without any relocations. Though, I am NOT sure about the CORRECTNESS of the binary.

In the original code, R_AARCH64_ABS32 relocation is used to resolve an address at static linking time. It seems works fine originally (which doesn't mean it is not bugous). I assume it is because, no one is trying to use pie feature really.

If people is using pie feature to load the binary in a different address, proper relocations are required, as well as the self-relocating code.

The linker won't generate a dynamic RELATIVE relocation for _AARCH64_ABS32. SO the address in the table won't be updated by the fixup code. However, bfd linker will generate a dynamic RELATIVE relocation for R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocation, and it could be processed by self-relocating code, taking the load address into account.

Regards, Renlin

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 11:45 AM Renlin Li renlin.dev@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Meng,

Thanks for raising the issue! I could reproduce the issue with the information you gave.

It seems to me that, the change I made earlier catches an issue here. in /arch/arm/cpu/armv8/psci.S

*/* PSCI function and ID table definition*/* *#define PSCI_TABLE(__id, __fn) *

• .word __id; *
• .word __fn*

"*.word*" is used to hold the address of a function.

The toolchain you used is aarch64-linux, which by default supports LP64 ABI. This means Long and void * (pointer) data type is 64-bit.

IIUC, a "*.xword*" should be used instead. Otherwise, you should use ILP32 ABI. But be aware, the support for ILP32 might not be complete.

Regards, Renlin

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Hi All, Could you please help to have a look whether below issue is valuable? I got u-boot source code from https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot.git, branch = is master. I got toolchain from https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/fi= les/bin/x86_64/8.1.0/ I built stratix10(socfpga) platform with below commands: export CROSS_COMPILE=3Dxxx/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-linux=

export ARCH=3Darm64 make mrproper make socfpga_stratix10_defconfig make menuconfig, and then enable CONFIG_ARMV8_PSCI make there will be below error: LD u-boot

/home/wrsadmin/Project/Native/SDK/Altera-Arria-10/gcc-8.1.0-nolibc/aarch64-= linux/bin/aarch64-linux-ld.bfd: arch/arm/cpu/armv8/built-in.o: relocation R= _AARCH64_ABS32 against `psci_cpu_suspend' can not be used when making a sha= red object