/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */ /* * Utility routines. * * Copyright (C) 2016 Denys Vlasenko * * Licensed under GPLv2, see file LICENSE in this source tree. */ //config:config FEATURE_USE_BSS_TAIL //config: bool "Use the end of BSS page" //config: default n //config: help //config: Attempt to reclaim a small unused part of BSS. //config: //config: Executables have the following parts: //config: = read-only executable code and constants, also known as "text" //config: = read-write data //config: = non-initialized (zeroed on demand) data, also known as "bss" //config: //config: At link time, "text" is padded to a full page. At runtime, all "text" //config: pages are mapped RO and executable. //config: //config: "Data" starts on the next page boundary, but is not padded //config: to a full page at the end. "Bss" starts wherever "data" ends. //config: At runtime, "data" pages are mapped RW and they are file-backed //config: (this includes a small portion of "bss" which may live in the last //config: partial page of "data"). //config: Pages which are fully in "bss" are mapped to anonymous memory. //config: //config: "Bss" end is usually not page-aligned. There is an unused space //config: in the last page. Linker marks its start with the "_end" symbol. //config: //config: This option will attempt to use that space for bb_common_bufsiz1[] //config: array. If it fits after _end, it will be used, and COMMON_BUFSIZE //config: will be enlarged from its guaranteed minimum size of 1 kbyte. //config: This may require recompilation a second time, since value of _end //config: is known only after final link. //config: //config: If you are getting a build error like this: //config: appletlib.c:(.text.main+0xd): undefined reference to '_end' //config: disable this option. //kbuild:lib-y += common_bufsiz.o #include "libbb.h" #include "common_bufsiz.h" #if !ENABLE_FEATURE_USE_BSS_TAIL /* We use it for "global" data via *(struct global*)bb_common_bufsiz1. * Since gcc insists on aligning struct global's members, it would be a pity * (and an alignment fault on some CPUs) to mess it up. */ char bb_common_bufsiz1[COMMON_BUFSIZE] ALIGNED(sizeof(long long)); #else # ifndef setup_common_bufsiz /* For now, this is never used: * scripts/generate_BUFSIZ.sh never generates "malloced" bufsiz1: * enum { COMMON_BUFSIZE = 1024 }; * extern char *const bb_common_bufsiz1; * void setup_common_bufsiz(void); * This has proved to be worse than the approach of defining * larger bb_common_bufsiz1[] array. */ /* * It is not defined as a dummy macro. * It means we have to provide this function. */ char *const bb_common_bufsiz1 __attribute__ ((section (".data"))); void setup_common_bufsiz(void) { if (!bb_common_bufsiz1) *(char**)&bb_common_bufsiz1 = xzalloc(COMMON_BUFSIZE); } # else # ifndef bb_common_bufsiz1 /* bb_common_bufsiz1[] is not aliased to _end[] */ char bb_common_bufsiz1[COMMON_BUFSIZE] ALIGNED(sizeof(long long)); # endif # endif #endif