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authorTamar Christina <tamar.christina@arm.com>2019-03-25 12:16:17 +0000
committerTamar Christina <tamar.christina@arm.com>2019-03-25 15:05:53 +0000
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Arm: Fix Arm disassembler mapping symbol search.
Similar to the AArch64 patches the Arm disassembler has the same issues with out of order sections but also a few short comings. For one thing there are multiple code blocks to determine mapping symbols, and they all work slightly different, and neither fully correct. The first thing this patch does is centralise the mapping symbols search into one function mapping_symbol_for_insn. This function is then updated to perform a search in a similar way as AArch64. Their used to be a value has_mapping_symbols which was used to determine the default disassembly for objects that have no mapping symbols. The problem with the approach was that it was determining this value in the same loop that needed it, which is why this field could take on the states -1, 0, 1 where -1 means "don't know". However this means that until you actually find a mapping symbol or reach the end of the disassembly glob, you don't know if you did the right action or not, and if you didn't you can't correct it anymore. This is why the two jump-reloc-veneers-* testcases end up disassembling some insn as data when they shouldn't. Out of order here refers to an object file where sections are not listed in a monotonic increasing VMA order. The ELF ABI for Arm [1] specifies the following for mapping symbols: 1) A text section must always have a corresponding mapping symbol at it's start. 2) Data sections do not require any mapping symbols. 3) The range of a mapping symbol extends from the address it starts on up to the next mapping symbol (exclusive) or section end (inclusive). However there is no defined order between a symbol and it's corresponding mapping symbol in the symbol table. This means that while in general we look up for a corresponding mapping symbol, we have to make at least one check of the symbol below the address being disassembled. When disassembling different PCs within the same section, the search for mapping symbol can be cached somewhat. We know that the mapping symbol corresponding to the current PC is either the previous one used, or one at the same address as the current PC. However this optimization and mapping symbol search must stop as soon as we reach the end or start of the section. Furthermore if we're only disassembling a part of a section, the search is a allowed to search further than the current chunk, but is not allowed to search past it (The mapping symbol if there, must be at the same address, so in practice we usually stop at PC+4). lastly, since only data sections don't require a mapping symbol the default mapping type should be DATA and not INSN as previously defined, however if the binary has had all its symbols stripped than this isn't very useful. To fix this we determine the default based on the section flags. This will allow the disassembler to be more useful on stripped binaries. If there is no section than we assume you to be disassembling INSN. [1] https://developer.arm.com/docs/ihi0044/latest/elf-for-the-arm-architecture-abi-2018q4-documentation#aaelf32-table4-7 binutils/ChangeLog: * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/in-order-all.d: New test. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/in-order.d: New test. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/objdump.exp: Support .d tests. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/out-of-order-all.d: New test. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/out-of-order.T: New test. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/out-of-order.d: New test. * testsuite/binutils-all/arm/out-of-order.s: New test. ld/ChangeLog: * testsuite/ld-arm/jump-reloc-veneers-cond-long.d: Update disassembly. * testsuite/ld-arm/jump-reloc-veneers-long.d: Update disassembly. opcodes/ChangeLog: * arm-dis.c (struct arm_private_data): Remove has_mapping_symbols. (mapping_symbol_for_insn): Implement new algorithm. (print_insn): Remove duplicate code.
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