[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavcodec: Remove dynamic relocs from aarch64/h264idct_neon.S

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Mon Dec 31 18:30:53 EET 2018


On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 03:12:53PM -0800, Manoj Gupta wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I recently had a problem building ffmpeg for AArch64 where lld linker
> complained about text relocations in readonly segment. The following
> patch fixes the linker complains by referring to a local label instead
> of function name.
> 
> This is similar in nature as the following previous commits:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ffmpeg-cvslog@ffmpeg.org/msg34290.html
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ffmpeg-cvslog@ffmpeg.org/msg34419.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Manoj
> 
> Patch:
> 
> libavcodec: Remove dynamic relocs from aarch64/h264idct_neon.S
> 
> Some of the assembly functions e.g. ff_h264_idct_dc_add_neon
> has code like:
>         movrel          x14, X(ff_h264_idct_add_neon)
> 
> Linker cannot resolve them fully at link time and emits dynamic
> relocations.
> Use explicit labels instead so that no dynamic relocations are
> needed at all.
> 
> This avoids lld complains about text relocations.
> 
> For background, see https://crbug.com/917919
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manoj Gupta <manojgupta at chromium.org>
> ---
>  libavcodec/aarch64/h264idct_neon.S | 20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Has this been tested on all common aarch64 platforms ?

Also git doesnt separate the mail from the commit message and would
put the wholw email as the commit message, i assume that is not
intended.

thx

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