ARM: 6501/1: Thumb-2: Correct data alignment for CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL in mm/proc-v7.S
Directives such as .long and .word do not magically cause the
assembler location counter to become aligned in gas. As a result,
using these directives in code sections can result in misaligned
data words when building a Thumb-2 kernel (CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL).
This is a Bad Thing, since the ABI permits the compiler to assume
that fundamental types of word size or above are word- aligned when
accessing them from C. If the data is not really word-aligned,
this can cause impaired performance and stray alignment faults in
some circumstances.
In general, the following rules should be applied when using data
word declaration directives inside code sections:
* .quad and .double:
.align 3
* .long, .word, .single, .float:
.align (or .align 2)
* .short:
No explicit alignment required, since Thumb-2
instructions are always 2 or 4 bytes in size.
immediately after an instruction.
In this specific case, we can achieve the desired alignment by
forcing a 32-bit branch instruction using the W() macro, since the
assembler location counter is already 32-bit aligned in this case.
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
index 53cbe22..9b9ff5d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
PMD_SECT_XN | \
PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE | \
PMD_SECT_AP_READ
- b __v7_ca9mp_setup
+ W(b) __v7_ca9mp_setup
.long cpu_arch_name
.long cpu_elf_name
.long HWCAP_SWP|HWCAP_HALF|HWCAP_THUMB|HWCAP_FAST_MULT|HWCAP_EDSP|HWCAP_TLS
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
PMD_SECT_XN | \
PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE | \
PMD_SECT_AP_READ
- b __v7_setup
+ W(b) __v7_setup
.long cpu_arch_name
.long cpu_elf_name
.long HWCAP_SWP|HWCAP_HALF|HWCAP_THUMB|HWCAP_FAST_MULT|HWCAP_EDSP|HWCAP_TLS