[U-Boot] [PATCH 04/20] sandbox: Add un/map_sysmen() to deal with sandbox's ram_buf

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Dec 26 19:56:57 CET 2012


Sandbox doesn't actually provide U-Boot access to the machine's physical
memory. Instead it provides a RAM buffer of configurable size, and all
memory accesses are within that buffer. Sandbox memory starts at 0 and
is CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE bytes in size. Allowing access outside this buffer
might produce unpredictable results in the event of an error, and would
expose the host machine's memory architecture to the sandbox U-Boot.

Most U-Boot functions assume that they can just access memory at given
address. For sandbox this is not true.

Add a map_sysmem() call which converts a U-Boot address to a system
address. In most cases this is a NOP, but for sandbox it returns a
pointer to that memory inside the RAM buffer.

To get a U-Boot feature to work correctly within sandbox, you should call
map_sysmem() to get a pointer to the address, and then use that address for
any U-Boot memory accesses.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 README                        |    9 +++++++++
 arch/sandbox/config.mk        |    1 +
 arch/sandbox/include/asm/io.h |   10 ++++++++++
 include/common.h              |   12 ++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 78f40df..8dd3867 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3769,6 +3769,15 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
 		that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
 		compiling a NAND SPL.
 
+- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
+		Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
+		effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
+		U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
+		to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
+		it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
+		addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
+		to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
+
 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
   CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
 		If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/config.mk b/arch/sandbox/config.mk
index 02ce4a4..4fd0d4e 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/config.mk
+++ b/arch/sandbox/config.mk
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
 # MA 02111-1307 USA
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DCONFIG_SANDBOX -D__SANDBOX__ -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DCONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
 PLATFORM_LIBS += -lrt
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/include/asm/io.h b/arch/sandbox/include/asm/io.h
index 0392d21..d8c0236 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/include/asm/io.h
+++ b/arch/sandbox/include/asm/io.h
@@ -39,3 +39,13 @@ static inline void unmap_physmem(void *vaddr, unsigned long flags)
 {
 
 }
+
+/* For sandbox, we want addresses to point into our RAM buffer */
+static inline void *map_sysmem(phys_addr_t paddr, unsigned long len)
+{
+	return map_physmem(paddr, len, MAP_WRBACK);
+}
+
+static inline void unmap_sysmem(const void *vaddr)
+{
+}
diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index f2035c0..08d01db 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -861,6 +861,18 @@ int cpu_disable(int nr);
 int cpu_release(int nr, int argc, char * const argv[]);
 #endif
 
+/* Define a null map_sysmem() if the architecture doesn't use it */
+# ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
+static inline void *map_sysmem(phys_addr_t paddr, unsigned long len)
+{
+	return (void *)(uintptr_t)paddr;
+}
+
+static inline void unmap_sysmem(const void *vaddr)
+{
+}
+# endif
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC
-- 
1.7.7.3



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