Due to the use of gperf to generate hash table for kobjects,
the addresses of these kobjects cannot change during the last
few phases of linking (especially between zephyr_prebuilt.elf
and zephyr.elf). Because of this, the gperf generated data
needs to be placed at the end of memory to avoid pushing symbols
around in memory. This prevents moving these generated blocks
to earlier sections, for example, pinned data section needed
for demand paging. So create placeholders for use in
intermediate linking to reserve space for these generated blocks.
Due to uncertainty on the size of these blocks, more space is
being reserved which could result in wasted space. Though, this
retains the use of hash table for faster lookup.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
When MPU is enabled, the sections need to be 64 bytes aligned.
In the case of MMU, BSS section will be 4k aligned, because the first
variable in BSS section 'base_xlat_table' is explicitly aligned by
'__aligned(NUM_BASE_LEVEL_ENTRIES * sizeof(uint64_t))'.
However, with MPU, we do not have such a variable. So it's necessary
to fix the alignment of the BSS section in the linker.ld
Signed-off-by: Jaxson Han <jaxson.han@arm.com>
Split ARM and ARM64 architectures.
Details:
- CONFIG_ARM64 is decoupled from CONFIG_ARM (not a subset anymore)
- Arch and include AArch64 files are in a dedicated directory
(arch/arm64 and include/arch/arm64)
- AArch64 boards and SoC are moved to soc/arm64 and boards/arm64
- AArch64-specific DTS files are moved to dts/arm64
- The A72 support for the bcm_vk/viper board is moved in the
boards/bcm_vk/viper directory
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
