linux/arch/arm/mach-realview/headsmp.S
Dave Martin 725ca4adae 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: 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>
2010-11-30 13:44:27 +00:00

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/*
* linux/arch/arm/mach-realview/headsmp.S
*
* Copyright (c) 2003 ARM Limited
* All Rights Reserved
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
__INIT
/*
* Realview specific entry point for secondary CPUs. This provides
* a "holding pen" into which all secondary cores are held until we're
* ready for them to initialise.
*/
ENTRY(realview_secondary_startup)
mrc p15, 0, r0, c0, c0, 5
and r0, r0, #15
adr r4, 1f
ldmia r4, {r5, r6}
sub r4, r4, r5
add r6, r6, r4
pen: ldr r7, [r6]
cmp r7, r0
bne pen
/*
* we've been released from the holding pen: secondary_stack
* should now contain the SVC stack for this core
*/
b secondary_startup
.align
1: .long .
.long pen_release