The GNU assembler has implemented the "unified syntax" parsing since
2005. This "unified" syntax is required when the kernel is built in
Thumb2 mode. However the "unified" syntax is a mixed bag of features,
including not requiring a `#' prefix with immediate operands. This leads
to situations where some code builds just fine in Thumb2 mode and fails
to build in ARM mode if that prefix is missing. This behavior
discrepancy makes build tests less valuable, forcing both ARM and Thumb2
builds for proper coverage.
Let's "fix" this issue by always using the "unified" syntax for both ARM
and Thumb2 mode. Given that the documented minimum binutils version that
properly builds the kernel is version 2.20 released in 2010, we can
assume that any toolchain capable of building the latest kernel is also
"unified syntax" capable.
Whith this, a bunch of macros used to mask some differences between both
syntaxes can be removed, with the side effect of making LTO easier.
Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
BSYM() was invented to allow us to work around a problem with the
assembler, where local symbols resolved by the assembler for the 'adr'
instruction did not take account of their ISA.
Since we don't want BSYM() used elsewhere, replace BSYM() with a new
macro 'badr', which is like the 'adr' pseudo-op, but with the BSYM()
mechanics integrated into it. This ensures that the BSYM()-ification
is only used in conjunction with 'adr'.
Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes it possible to enter zImage in Thumb mode for ARMv7-M
(Cortex-M) CPUs that do not support ARM mode. The kernel entry is also
made in Thumb mode.
[ukl: fix spelling in commit log, return early in call_cache_fn]
Signed-off-by: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patching UP/SMP alternatives inside inline assembly blocks is useful
outside of the spinlock implementation, where it is used for sev and wfe.
This patch lifts the macro into processor.h and gives it a scarier name
to (a) avoid conflicts in the global namespace and (b) to try and deter
its usage unless you "know what you're doing". The W macro for generating
wide instructions when targetting Thumb-2 is also made available under
the name WASM, to reduce the potential for conflicts with other headers.
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
BSYM macro is only needed for assembly files and its usage in c files is
wrong, so only define it for assembly.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
This patch adds various C and assembler macros that help with using
the unified assembler syntax for compiling files to either ARM or
Thumb-2 modes.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
