In the _start block we now iterate over envp to find the auxiliary
vector after the NULL. The pointer is saved into an _auxv variable
that is marked as weak so that it's accessible from multiple units.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The environ is retrieved from the _start code and is easy to store at
this moment. Let's declare the variable weak and store the value into
it. By not being static it will be visible to all units. By being weak,
if some programs already declared it, they will continue to be able to
use it. This was tested both with environ inherited from _start and
extracted from envp.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The historic nolibc code did not include asm/fcntl.h and had to define
the various O_RDWR etc macros in each arch-specific file (since such
values differ between certain archs). This was found at least once to
induce bugs due to wrong definitions. Let's get rid of all of them and
include asm/nolibc.h from sys.h instead. This was verified to work
properly on all supported architectures.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The out-of-block asm() statement carrying _start does not allow the
compiler to know what section the assembly code is being emitted to,
and there's no easy way to push/pop the current section and restore
it. It sometimes causes issues depending on the include files ordering
and compiler optimizations. For example if a variable is declared
immediately before the asm() block and another one after, the compiler
assumes that the current section is still .bss and doesn't re-emit it,
making the second variable appear inside the .text section instead.
Forcing .bss at the end of the _start block doesn't work either because
at certain optimizations the compiler may reorder blocks and will make
some real code appear just after this block.
A significant number of solutions were attempted, but many of them were
still sensitive to section reordering. In the end, the best way to make
sure the compiler and assembler agree on the current section is to place
this code inside a function. Here the function is directly called _start
and configured not to emit a frame-pointer, hence to have no prologue.
If some future architectures would still emit some prologue, another
working approach consists in naming the function differently and placing
the _start label inside the asm statement. But the current solution is
simpler.
It was tested with nolibc-test at -O,-O0,-O2,-O3,-Os for arm,arm64,i386,
mips,riscv,s390 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
On i386, the 6th argument of syscall goes in %ebp. However, both Clang
and GCC cannot use %ebp in the clobber list and in the "r" constraint
without using -fomit-frame-pointer. To make it always available for
any kind of compilation, the below workaround is implemented.
1) Push the 6-th argument.
2) Push %ebp.
3) Load the 6-th argument from 4(%esp) to %ebp.
4) Do the syscall (int $0x80).
5) Pop %ebp (restore the old value of %ebp).
6) Add %esp by 4 (undo the stack pointer).
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2e335ac54db44f1d8496583d97f9dab0@AcuMS.aculab.com
Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Building with clang yields the following error:
```
<inline asm>:3:1: error: _start changed binding to STB_GLOBAL
.global _start
^
1 error generated.
```
Make sure only specify one between `.global _start` and `.weak _start`.
Remove `.global _start`.
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Replace `asm` with `__asm__` to support compilation with -std flag.
Using `asm` with -std flag makes GCC think `asm()` is a function call
instead of an inline assembly.
GCC doc says:
For the C language, the `asm` keyword is a GNU extension. When
writing C code that can be compiled with `-ansi` and the `-std`
options that select C dialects without GNU extensions, use
`__asm__` instead of `asm`.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Basic-Asm.html
Reported-by: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
By doing so we can link together multiple C files that have been compiled
with nolibc and which each have a _start symbol.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In order to ease maintenance, this splits the arch-specific code into
one file per architecture. A common file "arch.h" is used to include the
right file among arch-* based on the detected architecture. Projects
which are already split per architecture could simply rename these
files to $arch/arch.h and get rid of the common arch.h. For this
reason, include guards were placed into each arch-specific file.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
