From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:42:37 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] PXA: Align stack to 8 bytes In-Reply-To: References: <1270970516-4282-1-git-send-email-marek.vasut@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201004142142.37301.marek.vasut@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dne Po 12. dubna 2010 19:07:31 Eric Miao napsal(a): > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > > Stack must be aligned to 8 bytes on PXA (possibly all armv5te) for > > LDRD/STRD instructions. In case LDRD/STRD is issued on an unaligned > > address, the behaviour is undefined. > > Well, I guess this is true for all ARMv5. ARMv6 and later however, provides > support for such unaligned accesses. According to ARM DDI 0100I, A2.8 > > Prior to ARMv6, doubleword (LDRD/STRD) accesses to memory, where the > address is not doubleword-aligned, are UNPREDICTABLE. Also, data accesses > to non-aligned word and halfword data are treated as aligned from > the memory interface perspective. That is: > > ? the address is treated as truncated, with address bits[1:0] treated as > zero for word accesses, and address bit[0] treated as zero for halfword > accesses. > ? load single word ARM instructions are architecturally defined to rotate > right the word-aligned data transferred by a non word-aligned address > one, two or three bytes depending on the value of the two least > significant address bits. > ? alignment checking is defined for implementations supporting a System > Control coprocessor using the A bit in CP15 register 1. When this bit > is set, a Data Abort indicating an alignment fault is reported for > unaligned accesses. > > ARMv6 introduces unaligned word and halfword load and store data access > support. When this is enabled, the processor uses one or more memory > accesses to generate the required transfer of adjacent bytes transparently > to the programmer, apart from a potential access time penalty where the > transaction crosses an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED cache-line, bus-width or > page boundary condition. Doubleword accesses must be word-aligned in this > configuration. > > > The issue was observed when working with the NAND code, which was > > rendered disfunctional. Also, the vsprintf() function had serious > > problems with printing 64bit wide long longs. After aligning the stack, > > this wrong behaviour is no longer present. > > > > Tested on: > > Marvell Littleton PXA310 board > > Toradex Colibri PXA320 board > > Aeronix Zipit Z2 PXA270 handheld > > Voipac PXA270 board > > > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut > > --- > > cpu/pxa/start.S | 5 ++++- > > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/cpu/pxa/start.S b/cpu/pxa/start.S > > index 13e2edb..bbfcfd1 100644 > > --- a/cpu/pxa/start.S > > +++ b/cpu/pxa/start.S > > @@ -140,7 +140,10 @@ stack_setup: > > #ifdef CONFIG_USE_IRQ > > sub r0, r0, #(CONFIG_STACKSIZE_IRQ+CONFIG_STACKSIZE_FIQ) > > #endif /* CONFIG_USE_IRQ */ > > - sub sp, r0, #12 /* leave 3 words for abort-stack > > */ + bic sp, r0, #7 /* leave 4 words for > > abort-stack */ + /* NOTE: stack > > MUST be aligned to */ + /* 8 > > bytes in case we want to use */ + > > /* 64bit datatypes (eg. VSPRINTF64) */ > > > > clear_bss: > > ldr r0, _bss_start /* find start of bss segment > > */ -- > > 1.7.0 Ok, applied.