[U-Boot] [PATCH v8] [RFC] early_malloc for DM added.
Tomas Hlavacek
tmshlvck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 16:16:40 CEST 2012
Hello Marek,
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tomas Hlavacek,
>
> [..]
>> +
>> + if (early_malloc_active()) {
>> + addr = early_malloc(size);
>> + for (i=0; i<size; i++)
>> + addr[i] = 0;
>
> memset() ?
Yes, sure. Thanks.
>
>> +
>> + return addr;
>> + }
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_SYS_EARLY_MALLOC */
>> + return calloc(n, elem_size);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void *dmrealloc(void *oldmem, size_t bytes)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_EARLY_MALLOC
>> + if (early_malloc_active())
>> + return NULL;
>
> I wonder how should this be implemented ... maybe early_malloc + standard
> memcpy()
How do you want me to fix all the pointers to the memcpyied part of
heap then? I think this will not work unless I make some reservations
for eventual growth for each and every early_mallocated area. And I
think this is not good idea at all for early_malloc.
I think there are two straight-forward possibilities: a) keep the
empty implementation of dmrealloc() in early stage and avoid using it
in code which might run in early stage, but retain the dm* version of
the symbol. b) remove the dmrealloc() entirely which may have certain
negative consequences, because it might be tempting to mix dmmalloc()
and (non-dm*) realloc() calls which is obviously wrong.
Tomas
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