On 12 December 2013 23:14, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Will Newton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 12 December 2013 21:59, Michael Hudson-Doyle
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Will Newton <[email protected]> writes:
>
> [sniiiip]
>
>>>> I would guess that 0x64c000 is the base of the GOT and 776 is the
>>>> offset into it (but I could be wrong). objdump -h will give you the
>>>> layout of the sections, objdump -R will dump the relocations.
>>>
>>> So I get this:
>>>
>>> $ objdump -h build/linux2/normal/mongo/base/counter_test | grep got 
>>> --context=2
>>>  23 .dynamic      00000220  000000000064b160  000000000064b160  0023b160  
>>> 2**3
>>>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
>>>  24 .got          00001c78  000000000064b380  000000000064b380  0023b380  
>>> 2**3
>>>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
>>>  25 .data         00000130  000000000064d000  000000000064d000  0023d000  
>>> 2**4
>>>
>>> And objdump -C -R gives this: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6563640/
>>>
>>> This would seem to be the relevant entry:
>>>
>>> 000000000064ccb8 R_AARCH64_TLS_TPREL64  mongo::_threadOstreamCache
>>>
>>> But I don't know what the offset means here and how it relates to the
>>> 776 in "ldr     x0, [x0,#776]".  0x64c000 + 776 is 0x64c308 which is
>>>
>>> 000000000064c308 R_AARCH64_GLOB_DAT  vtable for 
>>> boost::program_options::typed_value<unsigned int, char>
>>
>> This looks wrong.
>
> Yeah, it does.  Also poking around at 0x64c308 shows something that
> looks very much like a vtable for a class called typed_value...
>
>>> which is just random, but I don't know if that's a valid thing to be
>>> looking at :-)  That said, if we examine the memory at 0x64ccb8 and
>>> interpret it as an offset against tpidr_el0 things *seem* to make sense:
>>>
>>> (gdb) x 0x64ccb8
>>> 0x64ccb8:       0x00000010
>>> (gdb) x/g $x1 + 0x10
>>> 0x7fb7ff7700:   0x0000000000000000
>>>
>>> The correct value for this tls pointer at this point in time _is_ in
>>> fact NULL, but obviously this could happen just by chance :-)
>>>
>>> Still, looks a bit like a toolchain bug to me.  This is with g++ 4.8
>>> from trusty fwiw.
>>
>> I would be inclined to agree. Is there a simple way to reproduce the build?
>
> Ha.  No, I've only seen this when compiling all of mongodb, which takes
> a pretty long time on hw.  I'll certainly let you know if I can come up
> with something smaller.  I'll also try with 4.9.

Small is good, but we do have access to hardware so at least it won't
be days waiting for the model. ;-)

>> (although I don't think I will have time to look at it until the new year)
>
> No worries, a bug on launchpad.net/linaro-gcc is the right way to track
> this properly?

Yeah I think so, although I think it will actually be a binutils bug.

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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