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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Wrong structure alignment due to compiler attribute "section"
On 04.03.2015 15:35, Dave Martin wrote:

>
> Try
>
> rm drivers/clk/mvebu/kirkwood.o
> make ARCH=arm KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL=-save-temps drivers/clk/mvebu/kirkwood.o
>
> (abuse of KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL here, but it's empty by default, and
> I'm too lazy to copy-paste command lines...)
>
>
> The compiler will split out the compiled assembly code in kirkwood.s:
>
> Look for ".align" directives between the start of the affected section
> and the start of the next section (next .section directive).
>
> Here, we just have .align 2, which is the expected correct value
> (i.e., align __of_table_mv88f6180_clk on a 2^2 = 4 byte boundary).
>
> A different value here may indicate a bug in the compiler, because
> you observed that gcc _thinks_ that __alignof__ is 4 for the struct
> in this section even in the failing case.

Ok, this is the result for the assembly:

.section __clk_of_table,"a",%progbits
.align 3
.type __of_table_mv88f6180_clk, %object
.size __of_table_mv88f6180_clk, 196
__of_table_mv88f6180_clk:
.space 64
.ascii "marvell,mv88f6180-core-clock\000"
.space 99
.word kirkwood_clk_init
.space 4
.type __of_table_kirkwood_clk, %object
.size __of_table_kirkwood_clk, 196
__of_table_kirkwood_clk:
.space 64
.ascii "marvell,kirkwood-core-clock\000"
.space 100
.word kirkwood_clk_init

And this is the objdump:

Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00000094 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
1 .data 00000008 00000000 00000000 000000c8 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
2 .bss 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000d0 2**0
ALLOC
3 .debug_abbrev 0000047a 00000000 00000000 000000d0 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
4 .debug_info 00002c7d 00000000 00000000 0000054a 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
5 .debug_line 000003c7 00000000 00000000 000031c7 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
6 .init.text 00000348 00000000 00000000 00003590 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
7 .ARM.extab.init.text 00000000 00000000 00000000 000038d8 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
8 .ARM.exidx.init.text 00000030 00000000 00000000 000038d8 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
9 .ARM.extab 00000010 00000000 00000000 00003908 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
10 .ARM.exidx 00000008 00000000 00000000 00003918 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
11 .rodata 00000040 00000000 00000000 00003920 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
12 __clk_of_table 00000190 00000000 00000000 00003960 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
13 .rodata.str1.8 00000100 00000000 00000000 00003af0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
14 .init.rodata 00000288 00000000 00000000 00003bf0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
15 .debug_frame 000000b4 00000000 00000000 00003e78 2**2
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
16 .debug_loc 000002ef 00000000 00000000 00003f2c 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
17 .debug_pubnames 0000002c 00000000 00000000 0000421b 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
18 .debug_aranges 00000050 00000000 00000000 00004247 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
19 .debug_ranges 00000108 00000000 00000000 00004297 2**0
CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING
20 .debug_str 0000163d 00000000 00000000 0000439f 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
21 .comment 00000055 00000000 00000000 000059dc 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
22 .note.GNU-stack 00000000 00000000 00000000 00005a31 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
23 .ARM.attributes 0000002b 00000000 00000000 00005a31 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY


Very interesting. It shows an .align 3 which explains alignment on
8 byte boundaries:


c07630f8 T __clk_of_table
c07630f8 t __of_table_fixed_factor_clk
c07630f8 T __stop_kprobe_blacklist
c07631c0 t __of_table_fixed_clk
c0763288 t __of_table_gpio_gate_clk
c0763350 t __of_table_mv88f6180_clk

So this is indeed a compiler bug, right?


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