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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] zImage: Cleanup and improve zImage entry point
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:22:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D7AA50.3090408@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070216062739.6DFDBDDD05@ozlabs.org>

David Gibson wrote:
> Index: working-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
> @@ -59,6 +60,29 @@ _zimage_start:
>  	sync
>  	isync
>  
> -	mr	r6,r1
> -	b	start
> +	/* Possibly set up a custom stack */
> +.weak	_platform_stack_top
> +	lis	r8,_platform_stack_top@ha
> +	addi	r8,r8,_platform_stack_top@l
> +	cmpwi	r8,0
> +	beq	5f
> +	lwz	r1,0(r8)


Do you need to make a stack frame here for your
call to platform_init so it will have a place when it
stores the link register?


> +5:
> +
> +	/* Clear the BSS */
> +	lis	r9,__bss_start@ha
> +	addi	r9,r9,__bss_start@l
> +	lis	r8,_end@ha
> +	addi	r8,r8,_end@l
> +	li	r0,0
> +6:	stw	r0,0(r9)
> +	addi	r9,r9,4
> +	cmplw	cr0,r9,r8
> +	blt	6b


This messed me up a bit since I had two stacks in the bss, one for each
processor thread.  By the time this was called on the primary thread the
secondary thread could already be using its stack.  I changed the secondary
thread to use a small stack in the data section, so this seems OK.


-Geoff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-18  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-16  6:24 [0/3] RFC: Cleanups and improvements to the zImage wrapper David Gibson
2007-02-16  6:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] zImage: Cleanup and improve prep_kernel() David Gibson
2007-02-18  1:22   ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-18  7:21     ` David Gibson
2007-02-16  6:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] zImage: Add more flexible gunzip convenience functions David Gibson
2007-02-16  6:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] zImage: Cleanup and improve zImage entry point David Gibson
2007-02-18  1:22   ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2007-02-18  7:23     ` David Gibson
2007-02-19  0:26       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-19  0:48         ` David Gibson
2007-02-19 15:14       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 19:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 19:57     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 20:37       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 20:50         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:14           ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-16 16:47 ` [0/3] RFC: Cleanups and improvements to the zImage wrapper Geoff Levand

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