Kevin Lawton wrote:
>
> Essentially, I want to ensure that a handful of functions are
> placed in their own group of (4k) pages, apart from the other
> code/data pages.
>
> Is there a ld/as/gcc way to tag this group of functions to be
> loaded in a contiguous 4k page aligned section, and make sure
> there is no overlap with other code/data? I need to know the
> length of this section of code too.
>
> The rationale for this is so that in the monitor I can mark
> these pages only as readable from ring3 (user space) - they
> will contain the ring3 branch handlers for the DT code.
FWIW, I've started playing with the gcc __attribute__ directive:
extern int handler1(int) __attribute__ ((section ("section-name")));
not sure if this is what I need. Maybe this and the .p2align assembly
directive?
-Kevin
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