Memlayout is a mechanism to define memory areas outside the normal
program segment constructed by the linker. Therefore, it generally
doesn't make sense to relocate memlayout symbols when the program is
relocated. They tend to refer to things that are always in one specific
spot, independent of where the program is loaded.
This hasn't really hurt us in the past because the use case we have for
rmodules (ramstage on x86) just happens to not really need to refer to
any memlayout-defined areas at the moment. But that use case may come up
in the future so it's still worth fixing.
This patch declares all memlayout-defined symbols as ABSOLUTE() in the
linker, which is then reflected in the symbol table of the generated
ELF. We can then use that distinction to have rmodtool skip them when
generating the relocation table for an rmodule. (Also rearrange rmodtool
a little to make the primary string table more easily accessible to the
rest of the code, so we can refer to symbol names in debug output.)
A similar problem can come up with userspace unit tests, but we cannot
modify the userspace relocation toolchain (and for unfortunate
historical reasons, it tries to relocate even absolute symbols). We'll
just disable PIC and make those binaries fully static to avoid that
issue.
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Change-Id: Ic51d9add3dc463495282b365c1b6d4a9bf11dbf2
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/50629
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
abuild - coreboot autobuild script builds coreboot images for all
available targets. bash
acpi - Walk through all ACPI tables with their addresses. bash
amdfwtool - Create AMD Firmware combination C
amdtools - A set of tools to compare extended) K8 memory
settings. Perl
apcb - AMD PSP Control Block tools
apcb_edit.py - This tool allows patching an existing APCB
binary with specific SPDs and GPIO selection pins. Python3
archive - Concatenate files and create an archive C
autoport - Automated porting coreboot to Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge
platforms Go
bincfg - Compiler/Decompiler for data blobs with specs LexYacc
board_status - Tools to collect logs and upload them to the board
status repository BashGo
bucts - A tool to manipulate the BUC.TS bit on Intel targets. C
cavium - Devicetree_convert Tool to convert a DTB to a static C
file Python
cbfstool
cbfstool - For manipulating CBFS file C
fmaptool - Converts plaintext fmd files into fmap blobs C
rmodtool - Creates rmodules C
ifwitool - For manipulating IFWI C
cbmem - CBMEM parser to read e.g. timestamps and console log C
chromeos - These scripts can be used to access Chrome OS
resources, for example to extract System Agent reference code and other
blobs (e.g. mrc.bin, refcode, VGA option roms) from a Chrome OS
recovery image. C
crossgcc - A cross toolchain builder for -elf toolchains (ie. no
libc support)
docker - Dockerfiles for coreboot-sdk, coreboot-jenkins-node,
coreboot.org-status and docs.coreboot.org
dtd_parser - DTD structure parser Python2
ectool - Dumps the RAM of a laptop's Embedded/Environmental
Controller (EC). C
exynos - Computes and fills Exynos ROM checksum (for BL1 or BL2).
Python3
find_usbdebug - Help find USB debug ports
futility - Firmware utility for signing ChromeOS images Make
fuzz-tests - Create test cases that crash the jpeg code. C
genbuild_h - Generate build system definitions Shell
ifdtool - Extract and dump Intel Firmware Descriptor information
C
intelmetool - Dump interesting things about Management Engine
even if hidden C
intelp2m - Intel Pad to Macro (intelp2m) converter 'Go'
inteltool - Provides information about the Intel CPU/chipset
hardware configuration (register contents, MSRs, etc). C
intelvbttool - Parse VBT from VGA BIOS C
ipqheader
createxbl.py - Concatentates XBL segments into one ELF
image Python
ipqheader.py - Returns a packed MBN header image with the
specified base and size Python
mbncat.py - Generate ipq8064 uber SBL Python
mbn_tools.py - Contains all MBN Utilities for image
generation Python
kbc1126 - Tools used to dump the two blobs from the factory
firmware of many HP laptops with 8051-based SMSC KBC1098/KBC1126
embedded controller and insert them to the firmware image. C
kconfig - Build system Make
lint - Source linter and linting rules Shell
mainboard - mainboard specific scripts
google - Directory for google mainboard specific scripts
marvell - Add U-Boot boot loader for Marvell ARMADA38X C
me_cleaner - Tool for
partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images Python
nvramtool - Reads and writes coreboot parameters and displaying
information from the coreboot table in CMOS/NVRAM. C
pgtblgen - Generates page tables based on fixed physical address.
C
pmh7tool - Dumps, reads and writes PMH7 registers on Lenovo
ThinkPads. PMH7 is used for switching on and off the power of some
devices on the board such as dGPU. C
post - Userspace utility that can be used to test POST cards. C
config - Manipulate options in a .config file from the
command line Bash
cross-repo-cherrypick - Pull in patches from another tree
from a gerrit repository. Shell
decode_spd.sh - Decodes Serial Presence Detect (SPD) files
into various human readable formats.
dts-to-fmd.sh -Converts a depthcharge fmap.dts into an
fmaptool compatible .fmd format Bash
find-unused-kconfig-symbols.sh - Points out Kconfig
variables that may be unused. There are some false positives, but it
serves as a starting point Shell
gerrit-rebase - Applies all commits that from-branch has
over to-branch, based on a common ancestor and gerrit meta-data Bash
get_maintainer.pl - Print selected MAINTAINERS information
for the files modified in a patch or for a file Perl
maintainers.go - Build subsystem Maintainers Go
no-fsf-addresses.sh - Removes various FSF addresses from
license headers Shell
parse-maintainers.pl - Script to alphabetize MAINTAINERS
file Perl
update_submodules - Check all submodules for updates Bash
showdevicetree - Compile and dump the device tree C
spdtool - Dumps SPD ROMs from a given blob to separate files
using known patterns and reserved bits. Useful for analysing firmware
that holds SPDs on boards that have soldered down DRAM. python
spd_tools - Tools for generating SPD files for DDR4 memory used
in platforms with memory down configuration.
gen_spd.go - Generates de-duplicated SPD files using a
global memory part list provided by the mainboard in JSON format. Go
gen_part_id.go - Allocates DRAM strap IDs for different
DDR4 memory parts used by the board. Go
spkmodem_recv - Decode spkmodem signals C
superiotool - A user-space utility to detect Super I/O of a
mainboard and provide detailed information about the register contents
of the Super I/O. C
supermicro - Tools for supermicro platforms
smcbiosinfo - Generates SMC biosinfo for BMC BIOS updates
C
testing - coreboot test targets Make
uio_usbdebug - Debug coreboot's usbdebug driver inside a running
operating system (only Linux at this time). C
util_readme - Creates README.md of description files in ./util
subdirectories Bash
vboot_list - Tools to generate a list of vboot enabled devices to
the documentation Bash
vgabios - emulated vga driver for qemu C
x86 - Generates 32-bit PAE page tables based on a CSV input file.
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