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The .rela.dyn section is the same for BL2-AT-EL3, BL31, TSP.

Move it to the common header file.

I slightly changed the definition so that we can do "RELA_SECTION >RAM".
It still produced equivalent elf images.

Please note I got rid of '.' from the VMA field. Otherwise, if the end
of previous .data section is not 8-byte aligned, it fails to link.

aarch64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: warning: changing start of section .rela.dyn by 4 bytes
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: warning: changing start of section .rela.dyn by 4 bytes
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: warning: changing start of section .rela.dyn by 4 bytes
make: *** [Makefile:1071: build/qemu/release/bl31/bl31.elf] Error 1

Change-Id: Iba7422d99c0374d4d9e97e6fd47bae129dba5cc9
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

The patch fixes BL31 linker script error
"Init code ends past the end of the stacks"
for platforms with number of CPUs less than 4,
which is caused by __STACKS_END__ address being
lower than __INIT_CODE_END__.
The modified BL31 linker script detects such cases
and increases the total amount of stack memory,
setting __STACKS_END__ = __INIT_CODE_END__, and
CPUs' stacks are calculated by BL31 'plat_get_my_stack'
function accordingly. For platforms with more than 4 CPUs
and __INIT_CODE_END__ < __STACKS_END__ stack memory does not
increase and allocated CPUs' stacks match the existing
implementation.
The patch removes exclusion of PSCI initialization
functions from the reclaimed .init section in
'arm_reclaim_init.ld.S' script, which increases the
size of reclaimed memory region.

Change-Id: I927773e00dd84e1ffe72f9ee534f4f2fc7b6153c
Signed-off-by: Alexei Fedorov <Alexei.Fedorov@arm.com>

Move the data section to the common header.

I slightly tweaked some scripts as follows:

[1] bl1.ld.S has ALIGN(16). I added DATA_ALIGN macro, which is 1
    by default, but overridden by bl1.ld.S. Currently, ALIGN(16)
    of the .data section is redundant because commit 41286590


    ("Fix boot failures on some builds linked with ld.lld.") padded
    out the previous section to work around the issue of LLD version
    <= 10.0. This will be fixed in the future release of LLVM, so
    I am keeping the proper way to align LMA.

[2] bl1.ld.S and bl2_el3.ld.S define __DATA_RAM_{START,END}__ instead
    of __DATA_{START,END}__. I put them out of the .data section.

[3] SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT() is missing tsp.ld.S, sp_min.ld.S, and
    mediatek/mt6795/bl31.ld.S. This commit adds SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT()
    for all images, so the symbol order in those three will change,
    but I do not think it is a big deal.

Change-Id: I215bb23c319f045cd88e6f4e8ee2518c67f03692
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

If PLAT_RO_XLAT_TABLES is defined, the base xlat table goes to the
.rodata section instead of .bss section.

This causes a warning like:

/tmp/ccswitLr.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccswitLr.s:297: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .rodata

It is practically no problem, but I want to keep the build log clean.

Put the base table into the "base_xlat_table" section to suppress the
assembler warnings.

The linker script determines its final destination; rodata section if
PLAT_RO_XLAT_TABLES=1, or bss section otherwise. So, the result is the
same.

Change-Id: Ic85d1d2dddd9b5339289fc2378cbcb21dd7db02e
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

Move the bss section to the common header. This adds BAKERY_LOCK_NORMAL
and PMF_TIMESTAMP, which previously existed only in BL31. This is not
a big deal because unused data should not be compiled in the first
place. I believe this should be controlled by BL*_SOURCES in Makefiles,
not by linker scripts.

I investigated BL1, BL2, BL2U, BL31 for plat=fvp, and BL2-AT-EL3,
BL31, BL31 for plat=uniphier. I did not see any more  unexpected
code addition.

The bss section has bigger alignment. I added BSS_ALIGN for this.

Currently, SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT() is missing in sp_min.ld.S, and with this
change, the BSS symbols in SP_MIN will be sorted by the alignment.
This is not a big deal (or, even better in terms of the image size).

Change-Id: I680ee61f84067a559bac0757f9d03e73119beb33
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

The common section data are repeated in many linker scripts (often
twice in each script to support SEPARATE_CODE_AND_RODATA). When you
add a new read-only data section, you end up with touching lots of
places.

After this commit, you will only need to touch bl_common.ld.h when
you add a new section to RODATA_COMMON.

Replace a series of RO section with RODATA_COMMON, which contains
6 sections, some of which did not exist before.

This is not a big deal because unneeded data should not be compiled
in the first place. I believe this should be controlled by BL*_SOURCES
in Makefiles, not by linker scripts.

When I was working on this commit, the BL1 image size increased
due to the fconf_populator. Commit c452ba15

 ("fconf: exclude
fconf_dyn_cfg_getter.c from BL1_SOURCES") fixed this issue.

I investigated BL1, BL2, BL2U, BL31 for plat=fvp, and BL2-AT-EL3,
BL31, BL31 for plat=uniphier. I did not see any more  unexpected
code addition.

Change-Id: I5d14d60dbe3c821765bce3ae538968ef266f1460
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

These are mostly used to collect data from special structure,
and repeated in many linker scripts.

To differentiate the alignment size between aarch32/aarch64, I added
a new macro STRUCT_ALIGN.

While I moved the PMF_SVC_DESCS, I dropped #if ENABLE_PMF conditional.
As you can see in include/lib/pmf/pmf_helpers.h, PMF_REGISTER_SERVICE*
are no-op when ENABLE_PMF=0. So, pmf_svc_descs and pmf_timestamp_array
data are not populated.

Change-Id: I3f4ab7fa18f76339f1789103407ba76bda7e56d0
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

TF-A has so many linker scripts, at least one linker script for each BL
image, and some platforms have their own ones. They duplicate quite
similar code (and comments).

When we add some changes to linker scripts, we end up with touching
so many files. This is not nice in the maintainability perspective.

When you look at Linux kernel, the common code is macrofied in
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, which is included from each arch
linker script, arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

TF-A can follow this approach. Let's factor out the common code into
include/common/bl_common.ld.h

As a start point, this commit factors out the xlat_table section.

Change-Id: Ifa369e9b48e8e12702535d721cc2a16d12397895
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>