On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:30:39PM +0400, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > This is only required for "PIC" relocation and doesn't apply to modern > "PIE" relocation which does data relocation as well as code. > > "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. > > 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> > Cc: Thomas Langer <thomas.lan...@lantiq.com> > Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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