[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mx6: Reduce SPL malloc pool size

Stefano Babic sbabic at denx.de
Fri Nov 20 22:24:46 CET 2015


On 20/11/2015 21:43, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Using 50 MiB malloc pool in SPL is nonsense. Since the caches are not
> enabled in SPL, it takes 2 seconds to init the pool and has no obvious
> benefit. Reduce the size to 1 MiB.

You're absolutely right ! Nice catch !

> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
> Cc: Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com>
> ---
>  include/configs/imx6_spl.h | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/imx6_spl.h b/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> index 1744f2c..43ce7fe 100644
> --- a/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> +++ b/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> @@ -63,15 +63,15 @@
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_MX6SX) || defined(CONFIG_MX6UL) || defined(CONFIG_MX6SL)
>  #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR      0x88200000
> -#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE        0x100000        /* 1 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE        0x100000		/* 1 MB */
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START    0x88300000
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE     0x3200000       /* 50 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE     0x100000		/* 1 MB */
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE           0x87800000
>  #else
>  #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR	0x18200000
>  #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE		0x100000	/* 1 MB */
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START	0x18300000
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE	0x3200000	/* 50 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE	0x100000	/* 1 MB */
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE		0x17800000
>  #endif
>  #endif
> 

Tested-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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