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

Tim Harvey tharvey at gateworks.com
Fri Nov 20 22:40:41 CET 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> 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.
>
> 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
> --
> 2.1.4
>

Acked-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com>

thanks for dropping 2 secs off our time to boot!

Tim


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