[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] ARM: tegra: increase CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Oct 17 00:43:30 CEST 2012


On 10/16/2012 04:09 PM, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 16.10.2012, 15:50 -0600 schrieb Stephen Warren:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> The SPL has grown. Increase CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE so SPL's BSS does not
>> overlap the main U-Boot.
>
> Is there any specific reason why the SPL is now bigger than before? Or
> is this just because of the general U-Boot rework (like serial multi
> anywhere)? And by how much has it grown? This is really more out of
> curiosity rather than any real objection.

Looking at this more, I built commit cca6076 "tegra20: Remove armv4t
build flags" which was the last patch in the series that enabled SPL on
Tegra, and it overflows even there:

Configuring for ventana board...
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 226085	   4384	 274228	 504697	  7b379	./u-boot
  13857	    153	   4516	  18526	   485e	./spl/u-boot-spl

u-boot/master currently has:

Configuring for ventana board...
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 233579	   4432	 274368	 512379	  7d17b	./u-boot
  14382	    201	   4520	  19103	   4a9f	./spl/u-boot-spl

So, there is slight growth, but mainly I think we've just been getting
lucky.

Also, the overflow might possibly only have been exposed by the recent
serial rework; when I found the problem the serial rework caused on
Tegra, Allen mentioned that the missing BSS clearing hadn't been a
problem before since no global variables were used, but the serial
rework caused some to be.


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