arm: gicv3: Fix compiler dependent behavior
C99 standard: "What constitutes an access to an object that has
volatile-qualified type is implementation-defined".
GCC is not considering the cast to void of volatile structures as an
access and so is not actually issuing reads.
Clang does read those structures by copying them on the stack, which in
this case creates an overflow because of their large size.
This patch removes the cast to void and instead uses the USED attribute
to tell the compiler to retain the static variables.
Change-Id: I952b5056e3f6e91841e7ef9558434352710ab80d
Signed-off-by: Ambroise Vincent <ambroise.vincent@arm.com>
Zelalem Aweke <zelalem.aweke@arm.com>
diff --git a/plat/arm/common/arm_gicv3.c b/plat/arm/common/arm_gicv3.c
index cfc5359..4a3a22e 100644
--- a/plat/arm/common/arm_gicv3.c
+++ b/plat/arm/common/arm_gicv3.c
@@ -44,12 +44,11 @@
/*
* We save and restore the GICv3 context on system suspend. Allocate the
- * data in the designated EL3 Secure carve-out memory. The `volatile`
- * is used to prevent the compiler from removing the gicv3 contexts even
- * though the DEFINE_LOAD_SYM_ADDR creates a dummy reference to it.
+ * data in the designated EL3 Secure carve-out memory. The `used` attribute
+ * is used to prevent the compiler from removing the gicv3 contexts.
*/
-static volatile gicv3_redist_ctx_t rdist_ctx __section("arm_el3_tzc_dram");
-static volatile gicv3_dist_ctx_t dist_ctx __section("arm_el3_tzc_dram");
+static gicv3_redist_ctx_t rdist_ctx __section("arm_el3_tzc_dram") __used;
+static gicv3_dist_ctx_t dist_ctx __section("arm_el3_tzc_dram") __used;
/* Define accessor function to get reference to the GICv3 context */
DEFINE_LOAD_SYM_ADDR(rdist_ctx)