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authorGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2007-09-25 20:03:51 -0700
committerGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2007-09-25 20:03:51 -0700
commit9ef0f6a7f13a789bccfadf363861f5ff81709fc7 (patch)
treebd9f80a47246e3a5610fe0e733e2fbbf3697f87f /src/base
parent85d46ce470a498e3611885982f99fd9afe6e37e7 (diff)
downloadgem5-9ef0f6a7f13a789bccfadf363861f5ff81709fc7.tar.xz
Loader: Load all segments of an elf, rather than just the "text" and "data".
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : b28bb9ac5cde72878e948d64f629de6e4b42c2e8
Diffstat (limited to 'src/base')
-rw-r--r--src/base/loader/elf_object.cc92
-rw-r--r--src/base/loader/elf_object.hh8
2 files changed, 75 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
index ecce175b2..553723e74 100644
--- a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
+++ b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
@@ -216,50 +216,76 @@ ElfObject::ElfObject(const string &_filename, int _fd,
entry = ehdr.e_entry;
-
// initialize segment sizes to 0 in case they're not present
text.size = data.size = bss.size = 0;
+ int secIdx = 1;
+ Elf_Scn *section;
+ GElf_Shdr shdr;
+
+ // The first address of some important sections.
+ Addr textSecStart = 0;
+ Addr dataSecStart = 0;
+ Addr bssSecStart = 0;
+
+ // Get the first section
+ section = elf_getscn(elf, secIdx);
+
+ // Find the beginning of the most interesting sections.
+ while (section != NULL) {
+ gelf_getshdr(section, &shdr);
+ char * secName = elf_strptr(elf, ehdr.e_shstrndx, shdr.sh_name);
+
+ if (!strcmp(".text", secName)) {
+ textSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+ } else if (!strcmp(".data", secName)) {
+ dataSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+ } else if (!strcmp(".bss", secName)) {
+ bssSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+ }
+
+ section = elf_getscn(elf, ++secIdx);
+ }
+
+ // Go through all the segments in the program, record them, and scrape
+ // out information about the text, data, and bss areas needed by other
+ // code.
for (int i = 0; i < ehdr.e_phnum; ++i) {
GElf_Phdr phdr;
if (gelf_getphdr(elf, i, &phdr) == 0) {
- panic("gelf_getphdr failed for section %d", i);
+ panic("gelf_getphdr failed for segment %d.", i);
}
// for now we don't care about non-loadable segments
if (!(phdr.p_type & PT_LOAD))
continue;
- // the headers don't explicitly distinguish text from data,
- // but empirically the text segment comes first.
- if (text.size == 0) { // haven't seen text segment yet
+ // Check to see if this segment contains the bss section.
+ if (phdr.p_vaddr <= bssSecStart &&
+ phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_memsz > bssSecStart &&
+ phdr.p_memsz - phdr.p_filesz > 0) {
+ bss.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_filesz;
+ bss.size = phdr.p_memsz - phdr.p_filesz;
+ bss.fileImage = NULL;
+ }
+
+ // Check to see if this is the text or data segment
+ if (phdr.p_vaddr <= textSecStart &&
+ phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_filesz > textSecStart) {
text.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr;
text.size = phdr.p_filesz;
text.fileImage = fileData + phdr.p_offset;
- // if there's any padding at the end that's not in the
- // file, call it the bss. This happens in the "text"
- // segment if there's only one loadable segment (as for
- // kernel images).
- bss.size = phdr.p_memsz - phdr.p_filesz;
- bss.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_filesz;
- bss.fileImage = NULL;
- } else if (data.size == 0) { // have text, this must be data
+ } else if (phdr.p_vaddr <= dataSecStart &&
+ phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_filesz > dataSecStart) {
data.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr;
data.size = phdr.p_filesz;
data.fileImage = fileData + phdr.p_offset;
- // if there's any padding at the end that's not in the
- // file, call it the bss. Warn if this happens for both
- // the text & data segments (should only have one bss).
- if (phdr.p_memsz - phdr.p_filesz > 0 && bss.size != 0) {
- warn("Two implied bss segments in file!\n");
- }
- bss.size = phdr.p_memsz - phdr.p_filesz;
- bss.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr + phdr.p_filesz;
- bss.fileImage = NULL;
} else {
- warn("More than two loadable segments in ELF object.");
- warn("Ignoring segment @ 0x%x length 0x%x.",
- phdr.p_vaddr, phdr.p_filesz);
+ Segment extra;
+ extra.baseAddr = phdr.p_vaddr;
+ extra.size = phdr.p_filesz;
+ extra.fileImage = fileData + phdr.p_offset;
+ extraSegments.push_back(extra);
}
}
@@ -343,6 +369,22 @@ ElfObject::loadLocalSymbols(SymbolTable *symtab, Addr addrMask)
return loadSomeSymbols(symtab, STB_LOCAL);
}
+bool
+ElfObject::loadSections(Port *memPort, Addr addrMask)
+{
+ if (!ObjectFile::loadSections(memPort, addrMask))
+ return false;
+
+ vector<Segment>::iterator extraIt;
+ for (extraIt = extraSegments.begin();
+ extraIt != extraSegments.end(); extraIt++) {
+ if (!loadSection(&(*extraIt), memPort, addrMask)) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
void
ElfObject::getSections()
{
diff --git a/src/base/loader/elf_object.hh b/src/base/loader/elf_object.hh
index 3e7c85874..5c5f6907d 100644
--- a/src/base/loader/elf_object.hh
+++ b/src/base/loader/elf_object.hh
@@ -33,11 +33,15 @@
#include "base/loader/object_file.hh"
#include <set>
+#include <vector>
class ElfObject : public ObjectFile
{
protected:
+ //The global definition of a "Section" is closest to elf's segments.
+ typedef ObjectFile::Section Segment;
+
//These values are provided to a linux process by the kernel, so we
//need to keep them around.
Addr _programHeaderTable;
@@ -55,9 +59,13 @@ class ElfObject : public ObjectFile
void getSections();
bool sectionExists(std::string sec);
+ std::vector<Segment> extraSegments;
+
public:
virtual ~ElfObject() {}
+ bool loadSections(Port *memPort,
+ Addr addrMask = std::numeric_limits<Addr>::max());
virtual bool loadGlobalSymbols(SymbolTable *symtab, Addr addrMask =
std::numeric_limits<Addr>::max());
virtual bool loadLocalSymbols(SymbolTable *symtab, Addr addrMask =