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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Peter,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It should be unpatched GCC 4.9, and I found out that .bs_init is force 32-byte alignment with GCC 4.9.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">Dump from ramstage.o<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">12 .bs_init 000000c8 00000000 00000000 00036160
<span style="color:red">2**5</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As the result, padding datd is added to mrc_cache_update, pch_log and cbmem_bscb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d1d0 T _bs_init_begin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d1e0 t mrc_cache_update <- 32 bytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d200 t pch_log <- 32 bytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d220 t finalize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d248 t spi_init_bscb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d25c t cbmem_bscb <- 36 bytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d280 t disable_rom_cache_bscb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">0001d2a8 T _bs_init_end<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If we add aligned(4) to the define as the following :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">#define BOOT_STATE_INIT_ATTR __attribute__ ((used, aligned(4), section (“.bs_init)))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We can get 4-byte alignment for .bs_init.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">What is your thoughts on this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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