Hi Alexey,
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:19:56 +0400, Alexey Brodkin
<alexey.brod...@synopsys.com> wrote:
> "init_sequence_r" is just an array that consists of compile-time
> adresses of init functions. Since this is basically an array of integers
> (pointers to "void" to be more precise) it won't be modified during
> relocation - it will be just copied to new location as it is.
IIRC, in ARM we switched from GOT to ELF relocation precisely so that
data would be relocated as well as code, and I think it actually is,
otherwise we'd have a lot of complains. Therefore I fail to understand
the statements above. Can someone tell me what I'm getting wrong?
> As a consequence on execution after relocation "initcall_run_list" will
> be jumping to pre-relocation addresses. As long as we don't overwrite
> pre-relocation memory area init calls are executed correctly. But still
> it is dangerous because after relocation we don't expect initially used
> memory to stay untouched.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com>
>
> Cc: Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamad...@jp.panasonic.com>
> Cc: Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
> ---
> common/board_r.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/common/board_r.c b/common/board_r.c
> index 86ca1cb..8f45943 100644
> --- a/common/board_r.c
> +++ b/common/board_r.c
> @@ -903,9 +903,14 @@ init_fnc_t init_sequence_r[] = {
>
> void board_init_r(gd_t *new_gd, ulong dest_addr)
> {
> + int i;
> #ifndef CONFIG_X86
> gd = new_gd;
> #endif
> + /* Fixup table after relocation */
> + for (i = 0; i < sizeof(init_sequence_r)/sizeof(void *); i++)
> + init_sequence_r[i] += gd->reloc_off;
> +
> if (initcall_run_list(init_sequence_r))
> hang();
>
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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