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>
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
		
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| /*
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|  *  linux/arch/arm/boot/bootp/init.S
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|  *
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|  *  Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Russell King.
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|  *
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|  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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|  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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|  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
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|  *
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|  *  "Header" file for splitting kernel + initrd.  Note that we pass
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|  *  r0 through to r3 straight through.
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|  *
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|  *  This demonstrates how to append code to the start of the kernel
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|  *  zImage, and boot the kernel without copying it around.  This
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|  *  example would be simpler; if we didn't have an object of unknown
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|  *  size immediately following the kernel, we could build this into
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|  *  a binary blob, and concatenate the zImage using the cat command.
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|  */
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| 		.section .start,#alloc,#execinstr
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| 		.type	_start, #function
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| 		.globl	_start
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| 
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| _start:		add	lr, pc, #-0x8		@ lr = current load addr
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| 		adr	r13, data
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| 		ldmia	r13!, {r4-r6}		@ r5 = dest, r6 = length
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| 		add	r4, r4, lr		@ r4 = initrd_start + load addr
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| 		bl	move			@ move the initrd
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| 
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| /*
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|  * Setup the initrd parameters to pass to the kernel.  This can only be
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|  * passed in via the tagged list.
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|  */
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| 		ldmia	r13, {r5-r9}		@ get size and addr of initrd
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| 						@ r5 = ATAG_CORE
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| 						@ r6 = ATAG_INITRD2
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| 						@ r7 = initrd start
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| 						@ r8 = initrd end
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| 						@ r9 = param_struct address
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| 
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| 		ldr	r10, [r9, #4]		@ get first tag
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| 		teq	r10, r5			@ is it ATAG_CORE?
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| /*
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|  * If we didn't find a valid tag list, create a dummy ATAG_CORE entry.
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|  */
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| 		movne	r10, #0			@ terminator
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| 		movne	r4, #2			@ Size of this entry (2 words)
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| 		stmneia	r9, {r4, r5, r10}	@ Size, ATAG_CORE, terminator
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| 
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| /*
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|  * find the end of the tag list, and then add an INITRD tag on the end.
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|  * If there is already an INITRD tag, then we ignore it; the last INITRD
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|  * tag takes precedence.
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|  */
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| taglist:	ldr	r10, [r9, #0]		@ tag length
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| 		teq	r10, #0			@ last tag (zero length)?
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| 		addne	r9, r9, r10, lsl #2
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| 		bne	taglist
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| 
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| 		mov	r5, #4			@ Size of initrd tag (4 words)
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| 		stmia	r9, {r5, r6, r7, r8, r10}
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| 		b	kernel_start		@ call kernel
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| 
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| /*
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|  * Move the block of memory length r6 from address r4 to address r5
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|  */
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| move:		ldmia	r4!, {r7 - r10}		@ move 32-bytes at a time
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| 		stmia	r5!, {r7 - r10}
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| 		ldmia	r4!, {r7 - r10}
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| 		stmia	r5!, {r7 - r10}
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| 		subs	r6, r6, #8 * 4
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| 		bcs	move
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| 		mov	pc, lr
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| 
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| 		.size	_start, . - _start
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| 
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| 		.align
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| 
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| 		.type	data,#object
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| data:		.word	initrd_start		@ source initrd address
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| 		.word	initrd_phys		@ destination initrd address
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| 		.word	initrd_size		@ initrd size
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| 
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| 		.word	0x54410001		@ r5 = ATAG_CORE
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| 		.word	0x54420005		@ r6 = ATAG_INITRD2
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| 		.word	initrd_phys		@ r7
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| 		.word	initrd_size		@ r8
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| 		.word	params_phys		@ r9
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| 		.size	data, . - data
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