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Benoît Thébaudeau 37e73894f1 cc2538: Move SoC data to a dedicated section to save space
Some SoC data requires huge alignments. E.g., the µDMA channel control table has
to be 1024-byte aligned. This table was simply aligned to 1024 bytes in the C
code, which had the following consequences, wasting a lot of RAM:
 - As this table could be placed anywhere in .bss, there could be an alignment
   gap of up to 1023 bytes between the preceding data and this table.
 - The size of this table was also aligned to 1024 bytes, regardless of
   UDMA_CONF_MAX_CHANNEL, making this configuration option supposed to save RAM
   just useless.
 - .bss was also aligned to at least 1024 bytes, creating a huge alignment gap
   between .data and .bss.

Instead of relying on the compiler to force this alignment, and on the linker to
automatically place data, this change places carefully such SoC data in RAM
using the linker script. A dedicated section is created to place such SoC data
requiring huge alignments, and it is put at the beginning of the SRAM in order
to ensure a maximal alignment without any gap. In this way, the alignment of
.bss also remains normal, and the size of this table is not constrained by its
alignment, but only by its contents (i.e. by UDMA_CONF_MAX_CHANNEL).

In the case of the µDMA channel control table, the data is still zeroed by
udma_init() (instead of also being zeroed as part of .bss).

Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
2013-12-23 15:06:13 +01:00

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/*
* cc2538 linker configuration file. This is not the actual file used at link
* stage. Rather, it is used as input for the auto-generation of the actual
* ld script, which is called cc2538.ld and will be in the project directory
*/
#if (LPM_CONF_MAX_PM==2) && (LPM_CONF_ENABLE != 0)
#define NRSRAM_START 0x20000000
#define NRSRAM_LEN 0x00004000
#define SRAM_START 0x20004000
#define SRAM_LEN 0x00004000
#else
#define SRAM_START 0x20000000
#define SRAM_LEN 0x00008000
#endif
MEMORY
{
FLASH (rx) : ORIGIN = 0x200000, LENGTH = 0x0007FFD4
FLASH_CCA (RX) : ORIGIN = 0x0027FFD4, LENGTH = 44
#if (LPM_CONF_MAX_PM==2) && (LPM_CONF_ENABLE != 0)
NRSRAM (RWX) : ORIGIN = NRSRAM_START, LENGTH = NRSRAM_LEN
#endif
SRAM (RWX) : ORIGIN = SRAM_START, LENGTH = SRAM_LEN
}
SECTIONS
{
.text :
{
_text = .;
KEEP(*(.vectors))
*(.text*)
*(.rodata*)
_etext = .;
} > FLASH= 0
.socdata (NOLOAD) :
{
*(.udma_channel_control_table)
} > SRAM
.data :
{
_data = .;
*(vtable)
*(.data*)
_edata = .;
} > SRAM AT > FLASH
.ARM.exidx :
{
*(.ARM.exidx*)
} > FLASH
.bss :
{
_bss = .;
*(.bss*)
*(COMMON)
_ebss = .;
} > SRAM
#if (LPM_CONF_MAX_PM==2) && (LPM_CONF_ENABLE != 0)
.nrdata (NOLOAD) :
{
_nrdata = .;
*(.nrdata*)
_enrdata = .;
} > NRSRAM
#endif
.flashcca :
{
KEEP(*(.flashcca))
} > FLASH_CCA
}