History log of /seL4-refos-master/libs/libmuslc/arch/arm/reloc.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 56764601 19-Jan-2016 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

fix dynamic linker path file selection for arm vs armhf

the __SOFTFP__ macro which was wrongly being used does not reflect the
ABI (arm vs armhf) but just the availability of floating point
instructions/registers, so -mfloat-abi=softfp was wrongly being
treated as armhf. __ARM_PCS_VFP is the correct predefined macro to
check for the armhf EABI variant. this macro usage was corrected for
the build process in commit 4918c2bb206bfaaf5a1f7d3448c2f63d5e2b7d56
but reloc.h was apparently overlooked at the time.


# 9f290a49 09-Nov-2015 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

remove non-working pre-armv4t support from arm asm

the idea of the three-instruction sequence being removed was to be
able to return to thumb code when used on armv4t+ from a thumb caller,
but also to be able to run on armv4 without the bx instruction
available (in which case the low bit of lr would always be 0).
however, without compiler support for generating such a sequence from
C code, which does not exist and which there is unlikely to be
interest in implementing, there is little point in having it in the
asm, and it would likely be easier to add pre-armv4t support via
enhanced linker handling of R_ARM_V4BX than at the compiler level.

removing this code simplifies adding support for building libc in
thumb2-only form (for cortex-m).


# c0f10cf0 14-May-2015 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

make arm reloc.h CRTJMP macro compatible with thumb

compilers targeting armv7 may be configured to produce thumb2 code
instead of arm code by default, and in the future we may wish to
support targets where only the thumb instruction set is available.

the instructions this patch omits in thumb mode are needed only for
non-thumb versions of armv4 or earlier, which are not supported by any
current compilers/toolchains and thus rather pointless to have. at
some point these compatibility return sequences may be removed from
all asm source files, and in that case it would make sense to remove
them here too and remove the ifdef.


# f3ddd173 13-Apr-2015 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

dynamic linker bootstrap overhaul

this overhaul further reduces the amount of arch-specific code needed
by the dynamic linker and removes a number of assumptions, including:

- that symbolic function references inside libc are bound at link time
via the linker option -Bsymbolic-functions.

- that libc functions used by the dynamic linker do not require
access to data symbols.

- that static/internal function calls and data accesses can be made
without performing any relocations, or that arch-specific startup
code handled any such relocations needed.

removing these assumptions paves the way for allowing libc.so itself
to be built with stack protector (among other things), and is achieved
by a three-stage bootstrap process:

1. relative relocations are processed with a flat function.
2. symbolic relocations are processed with no external calls/data.
3. main program and dependency libs are processed with a
fully-functional libc/ldso.

reduction in arch-specific code is achived through the following:

- crt_arch.h, used for generating crt1.o, now provides the entry point
for the dynamic linker too.

- asm is no longer responsible for skipping the beginning of argv[]
when ldso is invoked as a command.

- the functionality previously provided by __reloc_self for heavily
GOT-dependent RISC archs is now the arch-agnostic stage-1.

- arch-specific relocation type codes are mapped directly as macros
rather than via an inline translation function/switch statement.


# 048a4e72 26-Aug-2014 Adrian Danis <Adrian.Danis@nicta.com.au>

Port muslc to seL4 build system and environment. Defines custom 'seL4' architectures for ARM and i386


# adf94c19 18-Jun-2014 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

refactor to remove arch-specific relocation code from dynamic linker

this was one of the main instances of ugly code duplication: all archs
use basically the same types of relocations, but roughly equivalent
logic was duplicated for each arch to account for the different naming
and numbering of relocation types and variation in whether REL or RELA
records are used.

as an added bonus, both REL and RELA are now supported on all archs,
regardless of which is used by the standard toolchain.


# bfa09700 16-Jun-2014 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

dynamic linker: permit error returns from arch-specific reloc function

the immediate motivation is supporting TLSDESC relocations which
require allocation and thus may fail (unless we pre-allocate), but
this mechanism should also be used for throwing an error on
unsupported or invalid relocation types, and perhaps in certain cases,
for reporting when a relocation is not satisfiable.


# 1da53dad 22-Jul-2013 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

disable legacy init/fini processing on ARM

since the old, poorly-thought-out musl approach to init/fini arrays on
ARM (when it was the only arch that needed them) was to put the code
in crti/crtn and have the legacy _init/_fini code run the arrays,
adding proper init/fini array support caused the arrays to get
processed twice on ARM. I'm not sure skipping legacy init/fini
processing is the best solution to the problem, but it works, and it
shouldn't break anything since the legacy init/fini system was never
used for ARM EABI.


# f389c498 18-Jul-2013 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

make the dynamic linker find its path file relative to its own location

prior to this change, using a non-default syslibdir was impractical on
systems where the ordinary library paths contain musl-incompatible
library files. the file containing search paths was always taken from
/etc, which would either correspond to a system-wide musl
installation, or fail to exist at all, resulting in searching of the
default library path.

the new search strategy is safe even for suid programs because the
pathname used comes from the PT_INTERP header of the program being
run, rather than any external input.

as part of this change, I have also begun differentiating the names of
arch variants that differ by endianness or floating point calling
convention. the corresponding changes in the build system and and gcc
wrapper script (to use an alternate dynamic linker name) for these
configurations have not yet been made.


# 9ec4283b 15-Oct-2012 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

add support for TLS variant I, presently needed for arm and mips

despite documentation that makes it sound a lot different, the only
ABI-constraint difference between TLS variants II and I seems to be
that variant II stores the initial TLS segment immediately below the
thread pointer (i.e. the thread pointer points to the end of it) and
variant I stores the initial TLS segment above the thread pointer,
requiring the thread descriptor to be stored below. the actual value
stored in the thread pointer register also tends to have per-arch
random offsets applied to it for silly micro-optimization purposes.

with these changes applied, TLS should be basically working on all
supported archs except microblaze. I'm still working on getting the
necessary information and a working toolchain that can build TLS
binaries for microblaze, but in theory, static-linked programs with
TLS and dynamic-linked programs where only the main executable uses
TLS should already work on microblaze.

alignment constraints have not yet been heavily tested, so it's
possible that this code does not always align TLS segments correctly
on archs that need TLS variant I.


# 9c74856a 04-Oct-2012 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

dynamic-linked TLS support for everything but dlopen'd libs

currently, only i386 is tested. x86_64 and arm should probably work.
the necessary relocation types for mips and microblaze have not been
added because I don't understand how they're supposed to work, and I'm
not even sure if it's defined yet on microblaze. I may be able to
reverse engineer the requirements out of gcc/binutils output.


# 74cc7c69 30-Sep-2011 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

typo (copy 2) in arm reloc.h


# cd319d73 30-Sep-2011 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

typo in arm reloc.h


# 12ace5bf 30-Sep-2011 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

first attempt at arm dynamic linking