/* Simple linker script for the JOS kernel. See the GNU ld 'info' manual ("info ld") to learn the syntax. */ /* OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386") */ /* OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-x86-64", "elf64-x86-64", "elf64-x86-64") */ OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-x86-64") OUTPUT_ARCH(i386:x86-64) ENTRY(_start) mboot_load_addr = 0x00100000; SECTIONS { /* Link the kernel at this address: "." means the current address */ /* Must be equal to KERNLINK */ . = 0xFFFF800000100000; PROVIDE(begin = .); /* The .l* section names are the x86-64 psABI's "large" sections, and they * are not optional decoration: with -mcmodel=large both LLVM and GCC 13+ * put nearly all code and data into .ltext/.lrodata/.ldata/.lbss rather * than the classic names. * * A script that does not name them still links. The large sections become * orphans placed after everything the script did name, which puts them past * PROVIDE(end = .) -- so kinit1(end, ...) hands the page allocator a megabyte * of live .lbss and the kernel destroys itself within a few instructions of * its first printf. That is exactly how this was found: the boot printed one * line and triple-faulted in a loop. * * Matched alongside their small counterparts so the layout is unchanged for * a toolchain that does not use them. */ .text : AT(mboot_load_addr) { *(.text .rela.text .stub .text.* .gnu.linkonce.t.*) *(.ltext .ltext.*) } PROVIDE(etext = .); /* Define the 'etext' symbol to this value */ .rodata : { *(.rodata .rodata.* .gnu.linkonce.r.*) *(.lrodata .lrodata.*) } /* Thread-local storage. * * The kernel really does use TLS: `__thread struct cpu *cpu` and * `__thread struct proc *proc` (kernel/arch/x86_64/vm.c), reached through * FS_BASE, which seginit() points at kernel_fs_base. * * These output sections are what make the linker emit a PT_TLS segment, and * without a PT_TLS the local-exec relocations have nothing to resolve * against: lld left every access as a bare `movq %fs:0x0`, so `cpu` and * `proc` both aliased the thread pointer itself and the kernel died a few * instructions into seginit. GNU ld happened to place an orphan .tbss well * enough to work; that was luck, not correctness. * * Order matters and is checked by more than C: trapasm.S hardcodes `proc` at * %fs:(-8). With cpu at TLS offset 0 and proc at 8 in a 16-byte block, the * local-exec offsets come out as -16 and -8, which is the layout that file * assumes. */ .tdata : { *(.tdata .tdata.* .gnu.linkonce.td.*) } .tbss : { *(.tbss .tbss.* .gnu.linkonce.tb.*) *(.tcommon) } /* Adjust the address for the data segment to the next page */ . = ALIGN(0x1000); /* Conventionally, Unix linkers provide pseudo-symbols * etext, edata, and end, at the end of the text, data, and bss. * For the kernel mapping, we need the address at the beginning * of the data section, but that's not one of the conventional * symbols, because the convention started before there was a * read-only rodata section between text and data. */ PROVIDE(data = .); /* The data segment */ .data : { *(.data .data.*) *(.ldata .ldata.*) } /* The kernel symbol table, generated by tools/ksyms.pl between the two link * passes. See kernel/core/ksym.c. * * The position is the whole trick and it is not cosmetic: everything the * table records is a *text* address, and .ksym sits after .text and .rodata, * so adding several tens of kilobytes here cannot move a single entry in it. * That is what makes two passes enough -- pass one is read to build the * table, pass two carries it, and pass two's text is identical to pass one's. * Put this before .text and the table describes a kernel that no longer * exists, subtly, with every address off by the size of the table. * * It is inside the loaded image (before edata), not in .bss, because it has * contents. mboot_load_end is computed from edata and would otherwise not * cover it. */ . = ALIGN(8); .ksym : { *(.ksym .ksym.*) } . = ALIGN(0x1000); PROVIDE(edata = .); .bss : { *(.bss .bss.*) *(.lbss .lbss.*) *(COMMON) } . = ALIGN(0x1000); PROVIDE(end = .); /DISCARD/ : { *(.eh_frame .rela.eh_frame .note.GNU-stack) } } mboot_load_end = mboot_load_addr + (edata - begin); mboot_bss_end = mboot_load_addr + (end - begin); mboot_entry_addr = mboot_load_addr + (mboot_entry - begin);