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bootloader/test/check_pi.py
BlackMark 735ffab7dc fix: the four tiers stop describing features they do not have, and three gates start failing
The reading pass over this repo found the tiers disagreeing with themselves,
and every fix here was measured.

**The turn-around guard is real code.** `tsb_asm` and `tsb_tricks` wrote
`for (std::uint8_t guard = 46; guard; --guard) ;` between taking the one-wire
line and the first UDR0 store, under a comment naming it a turn-around guard.
It has no side effect, so GCC deleted it - `sts UCSR0B` went straight to
`sts UDR0` - while the hand-written oracle spends six bytes on that wait and
libavr's own half-duplex spends them through `delay::cycles`. Two of four
tiers described a feature they did not have, which made the size gradient a
comparison between different loaders. `avr::delay::cycles<one bit time>()`
bottoms out in asm and cannot be deleted.

**The entry belongs to the library, and hand-rolling it was expensive.** Three
tiers wrote their own naked `.vectors` stub with `asm volatile("clr
__zero_reg__")` - which design.md fences to libavr and never a port, and which
`tsb_tricks` denied having in its own title line. `avr::startup::entry` also
keeps the body `noinline` for a stated reason: avr-ld must not shrink a
`.vectors` section, so a loader inlined into one forfeits call relaxation
everywhere. `tsb_pure` came out **836 -> 734** bytes for that alone.
`stack::hardware` - the reset value this part guarantees, with the write kept
where a part does not - saved another four, which is what let `tsb_asm` afford
the guard it had been four bytes short of. It fills its 512-byte section
exactly now, with the whole feature set.

**`tsb_pure` had no receive timeout.** Its `rx()` was `read_blocking()`, so a
silent host wedged the password gate and the command loop forever - the one
fix the oracle's own header lists by name, and one the other three tiers
implement. It is bounded now, and 0-on-silence falls through every compare as
theirs does.

Three gates could pass without proving anything. `sizes.py check-readme`
reported a match when every row's lookup missed; `check_size.cmake` used
`CMAKE_MATCH_1` without checking the match succeeded, which is the guard its
sibling `check_unit.cmake` has and it is the size gate; `check_pi.py` raised
IndexError instead of reporting a position-independence break that changed the
image's length. And `check.sh` spelled the 37-chip list a second time beside
make_presets.py, where a chip added to one and missed in the other is a
silently unbuilt chip - it reads the presets now, and produces the same 37 and
12.

tsbtest.py gains the scenario nothing covered: a wrong password byte must
neither activate the loader nor reach the emergency erase behind it. Red-green
on a tier with the refusal removed.

Smaller, all measured or checked: the signature is `hw::db.signature` in every
tier as the page size and EEPROM end beside it already were; `act_min` derives
from the clock; pureboot.py's `rjmp` helpers refuse a part past rjmp's
4096-word reach rather than silently folding an offset (unreachable today, the
ATtiny85 sits exactly on it); the host tool calls space 2 `data` as the wire
and the loader do; `.clangd` strips the fifth GCC-only flag the build passes;
pbrig's bitclock guard reads its own ladder; pbreloc's unexplained retry is
gone, the write being reliable on five runs without it; and the four tier
sizes live in oracle/README.md's table instead of four file headers and a
CMake comment.

`--poke` before `--peek` turned out to be right - pbtest.py round-trips a poke
through the peek behind it - so the parser order and README say so now.

Every chip green, the README size table matching every image.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 16:41:50 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Position-independence lint: the property that lets the identical image run
from any slot, asserted from the built ELF and its object.
1. No absolute jmp/call - -mrelax normally guarantees it, but a branch that
grows out of relaxation range would break it silently.
2. Nothing flash-resident to address: the image is .text alone, so there is
no table whose runtime address has to be reconstructed.
3. The image is byte-identical when linked at a different base. This is
position independence itself rather than a proxy for it - an absolute
address anywhere in the image would move with the link and show up as a
differing byte.
Usage: check_pi.py <objdump> <objcopy> <cxx> <mcu> <elf> <object> <text_start_hex>
"""
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
def fail(message):
print(f"FAIL: {message}")
sys.exit(1)
def main():
objdump, objcopy, cxx, mcu, elf, obj, text_start = sys.argv[1:]
text_start = int(text_start, 0)
listing = subprocess.run([objdump, "-d", elf], capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout
absolute = [line for line in listing.splitlines() if re.search(r"\t(jmp|call)\t", line)]
if absolute:
fail("absolute control flow in the image:\n" + "\n".join(absolute))
# Allocated flash beyond .text would be data the running copy has to find.
# Only ALLOC sections reach the device at all; .comment and the debug
# sections ride along in the ELF container and are never flashed. objdump
# prints each section's flags on the line following its header.
headers = subprocess.run([objdump, "-h", elf], capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout.splitlines()
for index, line in enumerate(headers):
fields = line.split()
if len(fields) < 6 or not fields[0].isdigit():
continue
name, size = fields[1], int(fields[2], 16)
flags = headers[index + 1] if index + 1 < len(headers) else ""
if "ALLOC" not in flags or not size:
continue
if name not in (".text", ".noinit", ".bss"):
fail(f"flash-resident section {name} ({size} bytes): the image must be .text alone")
# Relink at a different base and compare the bytes.
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as work:
elsewhere = text_start - 0x200 if text_start >= 0x200 else text_start + 0x200
images = []
for base, tag in ((text_start, "here"), (elsewhere, "there")):
relinked = os.path.join(work, f"{tag}.elf")
binary = os.path.join(work, f"{tag}.bin")
subprocess.run(
[cxx, f"-mmcu={mcu}", "-nostartfiles", f"-Wl,--section-start=.text={base:#x}",
"-Wl,--defsym=pureboot_app=0", "-mrelax", obj, "-o", relinked],
check=True, capture_output=True)
subprocess.run([objcopy, "-O", "binary", relinked, binary], check=True)
images.append(open(binary, "rb").read())
if len(images[0]) != len(images[1]):
fail(f"the image is {len(images[0])} B linked at {text_start:#x} and "
f"{len(images[1])} B at {elsewhere:#x} - relaxation followed the address")
if images[0] != images[1]:
differing = [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(*images)) if a != b]
fail(f"the image changes when linked at {elsewhere:#x} instead of {text_start:#x}: "
f"{len(differing)} byte(s) differ, first at offset {differing[0]:#x}")
print(f"PI lint: control flow PC-relative, .text only, identical linked at {text_start:#x} and {elsewhere:#x}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()