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2016-08-13libpayload: head.S: Avoid clearing BSS (and heap) againJulius Werner
3 out of 4 architectures currently zero out the payload BSS in early assembly code, which is pointless since the code loading the payload has already done that (with a more efficient memset). ARM64 has never had any code like this and can run just fine without it. This also defeats the new optimization of moving the heap out of the BSS, since all three implementations assume that everything between _edata and _end is BSS. We should just take this out. Change-Id: I45cd2dabd94da43ff0f77e990f11c877cee6cda1 Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/16091 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
2015-01-06libpayload: arm: add code to clear bssVadim Bendebury
This adds some assembly code to clear .bss segment. It might have been already cleared by the loader, but it is not guaranteed. This also helps when the program is loaded by the debugger. BUG=none TEST=observed that .bss is now initialized when the program is restarted. Verified correct boundaries of the segment. Original-Change-Id: I0aed0070da53881e4cf8c27049459040c006e765 Original-Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/201784 Original-Reviewed-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-by: Trevor Bourget <tbourget@codeaurora.org> (cherry picked from commit c89ecee5ddfc33a438d4d1926d3756a48f3c2576) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: Ic0c33d2a8ad22cd23b3ccb73c603cb14ae2aab29 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/8060 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
2014-12-09libpayload: arm: Pass the coreboot table location to the payload.Gabe Black
To find the coreboot tables, the payload has historically searched for their signature in a predefined region of memory. This is a little clumsy on x86, but it works because you can assume certain regions are RAM. Also, there are areas which are set aside for the firmware by convention. On x86 there's a forwarding entry which goes in one of those fairly small conventional areas and which points to the CBMEM area at the end of memory. On ARM there aren't areas like that, so we've left out the forwarding entry and gone directly to CBMEM. RAM may not start at the beginning of the address space or go to its end, and that means there isn't really anywhere fixed you can put the coreboot tables. That's meant that libpayload has to be configured on a per board basis to know where to look for CBMEM. Now that we have boards that don't have fixed amounts of memory, the location of the end of RAM isn't fixed even on a per board level which means even that workaround will no longer cut it. This change makes coreboot pass the location of the coreboot tables to libpayload using r0, the first argument register. That means we'll be able to find them no matter where CBMEM is, and we can get rid of the per board search ranges. We can extend this mechanism to x86 as well, but there may be more complications and it's less necessary there. It would be a good thing to do eventually though. BUG=None TEST=Built and booted on nyan. Changed the size of memory and saw that the payload could still find the coreboot tables where before it couldn't. Built for pit, snow, and big. BRANCH=None Original-Change-Id: I7218afd999da1662b0db8172fd8125670ceac471 Original-Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/185572 Original-Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Original-Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Original-Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit ca88f39c21158b59abe3001f986207a292359cf5) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: Iab14e9502b6ce7a55f0a72e190fa582f89f11a1e Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7655 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
2014-11-13arm: Put assembly functions into separate sectionsJulius Werner
This patch changes the ENTRY() macro in asm.h to create a new section for every assembler function, thus providing dcache_clean/invalidate_all and friends with the same --gc-sections goodness that our C functions have. This requires a few minor changes of moving around data (to make sure it ends up in the right section) and changing some libgcc functions (which apparently need to have two names?), but nothing serious. (You may note that some of our assembly functions have data, sometimes even writable, within the same .text section. This has been this way before and I'm not looking to change it for now, although it's not totally clean. Since we don't enforce read-only sections through paging, it doesn't really hurt.) BUG=None TEST=Nyan and Snow still boot. Confirm dcache_invalidate_all is not output into any binary anymore since no one actually uses it. Original-Change-Id: I247b29d6173ba516c8dff59126c93b66f7dc4b8d Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/183891 (cherry picked from commit 4a3f2e45e06cc8592d56c3577f41ff879f10e9cc) Signed-off-by: Marc Jones <marc.jones@se-eng.com> Change-Id: Ieaa4f2ea9d81c5b9e2b36a772ff9610bdf6446f9 Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7451 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix@chromium.org>
2014-09-22arm: Move libgcc assembly macros to arch/asm.hJulius Werner
libgcc/macros.h contains some useful assembly macros that are common in Linux kernel code and facilitate things such as unified ARM/THUMB assembly. This patch moves it to a more general place where it can be used by other code as well. Change-Id: If68e8930aaafa706c54cf9a156fac826b31bb193 Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org> Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/182178 Reviewed-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit a780670def94a969829811fa8cf257f12b88f085) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6917 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <dhendrix@chromium.org>
2014-09-08ARM: Generalize armv7 as arm.Gabe Black
There are ARM systems which are essentially heterogeneous multicores where some cores implement a different ARM architecture version than other cores. A specific example is the tegra124 which boots on an ARMv4 coprocessor while most code, including most of the firmware, runs on the main ARMv7 core. To support SOCs like this, the plan is to generalize the ARM architecture so that all versions are available, and an SOC/CPU can then select what architecture variant should be used for each component of the firmware; bootblock, romstage, and ramstage. Old-Change-Id: I22e048c3bc72bd56371e14200942e436c1e312c2 Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/171338 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit 8423a41529da0ff67fb9873be1e2beb30b09ae2d) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com> ARM: Split out ARMv7 code and make it possible to have other arch versions. We don't always want to use ARMv7 code when building for ARM, so we should separate out the ARMv7 code so it can be excluded, and also make it possible to include code for some other version of the architecture instead, all per build component for cases where we need more than one architecture version at a time. The tegra124 bootblock will ultimately need to be ARMv4, but until we have some ARMv4 code to switch over to we can leave it set to ARMv7. Old-Change-Id: Ia982c91057fac9c252397b7c866224f103761cc7 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/171400 Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Tested-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org> (cherry picked from commit 799514e6060aa97acdcf081b5c48f965be134483) Squashed two related patches for splitting ARM support into general ARM support and ARMv7 specific pieces. Change-Id: Ic6511507953a2223c87c55f90252c4a4e1dd6010 Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen <isaac.christensen@se-eng.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/6782 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)