Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> * Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> [151223 12:31]:
> > 
> > Looks like a case similar to Geert's
> > 
> >         adr     r7, kick_counter
> > wait_dll_lock_timed:
> >         ldr     r4, wait_dll_lock_counter
> >         add     r4, r4, #1
> >         str     r4, [r7, #wait_dll_lock_counter - kick_counter]
> >         ldr     r4, sdrc_dlla_status
> >         /* Wait 20uS for lock */
> >         mov     r6, #8
> > 
> > 
> > kick_counter and wait_dll_lock_counter are in the text section which is marked read only.
> > They need to be moved to the data section along with a few other variables from what I
> > can tell (maybe those are read only?).
> 
> Thanks for looking, yeah so it seem.
> 
> > I suspect this is going to be a common issue with suspend/resume code paths since those
> > are hand written assembly.
> 
> Yes I suspect we have quite a few cases like this.

We fixed a bunch of similar issues where code was located in the .data 
section for ease of use from assembly code.  See commit b4e61537 and 
d0776aff for example.


Nicolas
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