ARM: Align stack to 8 bytes
The ARM ABI requires that the stack be aligned to 8 bytes as it is noted
in Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture:
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0042d/index.html
Unaligned SP also causes the problem with variable-length arrays
allocation when VLA address becomes less than stack pointer during
aligning of this address, so the next 'push' in the stack overwrites
first 4 bytes of VLA.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuzmichev <vkuzmichev@mvista.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/start.S
index a540edb..f98a7aa 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/start.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/start.S
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@
sub r0, r0, #CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN /* malloc area */
sub r0, r0, #CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE /* bdinfo */
sub sp, r0, #12 /* leave 3 words for abort-stack */
+ bic sp, sp, #7 /* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
clear_bss:
ldr r0, _bss_start /* find start of bss segment */