Commit 9405eaf1 authored Jul 03, 2025 by Stephanos Ioannidis Committed by Alberto Escolar Aug 11, 2025

arch: arm: cortex_m: Force literal pool placement in inline asm block



When LTO is enabled, linker may relocate literal pools out of Thumb LDR
instruction's reach causing "offset out of range" errors while linking.

This commit adds `.ltorg` directive in the inline asm blocks where absolute
addresses are loaded using the `ldr` instructions, in order to ensure that
the literal pool containing the absolute addresses are placed near the
`ldr` instructions.

Note that the `.ltorg` directive is recognised by all toolchains supported
by Zephyr and no toolchain abstraction is provided for now.

Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <root@stephanos.io>
(cherry picked from commit d7d3ae5c)

parent f88a83a2

arch/arm/core/cortex_m/thread.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -586,6 +586,8 @@ void arch_switch_to_main_thread(struct k_thread main_thread, char stack_ptr,
		"mov r3, #0\n"
		"ldr r4, =z_thread_entry\n"
		"bx r4\n" /* We don’t intend to return, so there is no need to link. */
		/* Force a literal pool placement for the addresses referenced above */
		".ltorg\n"
		:
		: "r" (_main), "r" (stack_ptr)
		: "r0", "r1", "r2", "r3", "r4", "ip", "lr", "memory");
		@@ -653,6 +655,8 @@ FUNC_NORETURN void z_arm_switch_to_main_no_multithreading(
		"ldr r0, =arch_irq_lock_outlined\n"
		"blx r0\n"
		"loop: b loop\n\t" /* while (true); */
		/* Force a literal pool placement for the addresses referenced above */
		".ltorg\n"
		:
		: [_p1]"r" (p1), [_p2]"r" (p2), [_p3]"r" (p3),
		[_psp]"r" (psp), [_main_entry]"r" (main_entry)

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