提交 725ca4ad 编写于 作者: D Dave Martin 提交者: Russell King

ARM: 6507/1: RealView: Correct data alignment in headsmp.S for CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL

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.
Reviewed-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
上级 a75e5248
......@@ -35,5 +35,6 @@ pen: ldr r7, [r6]
*/
b secondary_startup
.align
1: .long .
.long pen_release
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