On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 01:19:31PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > The ARM linker may emit veneers, i.e., trampolines, when ordinary > direct relative branches cannot be used, e.g., for Thumb interworking > or branch targets that are out of range. > > Usually, such veneers carry an absolute reference to the branch > target, which is problematic for us, since these absolute references > are not covered by annotations that are visible to GenFw in the > PE/COFF conversion, and so these absolute references are not fixed > up by the PE/COFF loader at runtime. > > So switch to all ARM GNU ld toolchains to position independent veneers.
Do we know how ling that flag has been around for? I find a post from 2009 referring to as "new", so I guess we're safe for anything we care about. Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org> > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > --- > BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > index 2ba833e1fb06..902680c24c85 100755 > --- a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > +++ b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > @@ -4150,7 +4150,7 @@ DEFINE GCC_DLINK_FLAGS_COMMON = -nostdlib --pie > DEFINE GCC_DLINK2_FLAGS_COMMON = > -Wl,--script=$(EDK_TOOLS_PATH)/Scripts/GccBase.lds > DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON = DEF(GCC_DLINK_FLAGS_COMMON) > --gc-sections > DEFINE GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON= -Wl,--emit-relocs -nostdlib > -Wl,--gc-sections -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT) > -Wl,-e,$(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT),-Map,$(DEST_DIR_DEBUG)/$(BASE_NAME).map > -DEFINE GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z > common-page-size=0x20 > +DEFINE GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z > common-page-size=0x20 -Wl,--pic-veneer > DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_DLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z > common-page-size=0x20 > DEFINE GCC_ARM_AARCH64_ASLDLINK_FLAGS = -Wl,--defsym=PECOFF_HEADER_SIZE=0 > DEF(GCC_DLINK2_FLAGS_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20 > DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_ASLDLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON) --entry > _ReferenceAcpiTable -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT) > -- > 2.19.2 > _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
